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S4 E22: Coercive Control: How to Build Your Case Before You're Ready to Leave
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If you're in a controlling relationship, start writing everything down — today. Not someday. Today.
Family lawyer Maryam Manteghi explains exactly how a journal becomes the foundation of a coercive control case, why abusers follow a predictable playbook, and what women can do right now to protect themselves whether they're ready to leave or not.
Coercive control isn't one dramatic event. It's a pattern — and you can't prove a pattern you never documented.
Maryam also breaks down domestic mischief as a criminal charge, how to document safely while still in the home, why…
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