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of Domestic Violence. 29 Hastings Const LQ 1 (Fall, 2001).
Lininger, A Better Way to Disarm Batterers. 54 Hastings LJ 525 (March, 2003).
Taylor, Ex Parte Domestic Violence Orders of Protection: How Easing Access To Judicial Process Has Eased the
Possibility for Abuse of the Process. 18 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 83 (Fall, 2008).
Dunlap, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: The Error of Pursuing Battered Mothers for Failure to Protect.
50 Loy L Rev 565.
Long, Commonwealth v. Gonsalves: Erroneously Expanding the Concept of Police Interrogation Set Forth in
Crawford v. Washington to Include Investigatory Police Interrogations. 33 N.E. J. on Crim. & Civ. Con. 171 (Winter,
2007).
Syrnick, Shifting the Burden: An Argument for a Rebuttable Presumption against Visitation during a 209A
Restraining Order Proceeding. 43 New Eng. L. Rev. 645 (Spring, 2009).
Tracia, Navigating the Waters of Massachusetts Child Relocation Law: Assessing The Application of the Real
Advantage Standard. 13 Suffolk J. Trial & App. Adv. 139 (2008).
Gresens, Denying Choice of Forum: An Interference by the Massachusetts Trial Court with Domestic Violence
Victims' Rights and Safety. 43 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 293 (2010).
Balos, Creating a Constitutional Right to Counsel in the Civil Context: Domestic Violence Matters: The Case for
Appointed Counsel in Protective Order Proceedings. 15 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 557 (Summer, 2006).
Buel and Drew, Do Ask and Do Tell: Rethinking the Lawyer's Duty to Warn in Domestic Violence Cases. 75 U.
Cin. L. Rev. 447 (Winter, 2006).
Web References
ABA Domestic Violence Section, see www.abanet.org/domviol/home.html
ABA Family Law Section, see www.abanet.org/family/home.html
Department of Social Services, see www.state.ma.us/dss/
Legal Information Institute's Divorce Law Overview, see www.law.cornell.edu/topics/divorce.html
Legal Information Institute's Marriage Law Overview, see www.law.cornell.edu/topics/marriage.html
Probate and Family Court, see www.state.ma.us/courts/courtsandjudges/courts/probateandfamilycourt/
CASE NOTES
ALM GL c 209A, § 3 is clear legislative statement of public policy which is of assistance in construing 1974
revision of rape statutes to eliminate common law spousal exclusion. Commonwealth v. [Name Redacted] (1981) 383
Mass 123, 417 NE2d 1203, 1981 Mass LEXIS 1142.
Evidence of restraining order requiring defendant-husband to vacate marital home issued more than 7 months