How Some Men Are Upending Domestic Violence Laws to Scam an Advantage in Divorce

Last month, I discussed the top six underhanded tactics used by husbands during divorce.

As a quick recap, let me remind you that those dirty tricks are:

• “Conflicting out” all the top divorce lawyers.
• Stalling and delaying.
• Exerting pressure to proceed too quickly.
• Denying access to financial resources.
• Hiding assets.
• Failing to pay court-ordered support or refusing to relinquish assets.

Now, I’d like to add to that list with two more devious strategies, both of which hinge on the manipulation of domestic violence laws –the very laws that, ironically, were implemented to protect women, not harm them. Here are the two “new” underhanded tactics which divorce professionals are seeing crop up with increasing frequency:

1. Husbands claiming their wives are abusers.

This ploy is just as ugly as it sounds. Some men are upending domestic violence laws so that their wives (who are the true victims) are arrested, prosecuted and even sentenced as abusers.

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