Domestic violence cases can significantly influence various aspects of family law, especially child custody arrangements. When such charges arise, they often lead to complex legal challenges and considerations that can impact a parent’s rights and responsibilities.
You can read a transcript of the interview below.
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Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: How does this blend in as well with emotional abuse? So domestic violence and there’s no physical contact. Is it domestic violence if it’s emotional abuse?
Steve Waterkotte: That tends to fall more under what we would consider harassment.
That’s an element under the harassment statute, which I guess can be labeled a form of abuse. But the crime in Missouri for emotional distress, substantial emotional distress, is kind of what it’s defined as. So that would be more harassment.
Certainly a form of abuse, but it doesn’t necessarily fall under the domestic abuse statutes first through fourth. [It] falls more under harassment. One of the elements of the harassment statute is it caused somebody emotional distress.
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