Family Violence and the Family Court: What Survivors Need to Know
8 January 2025
If you are navigating the family law system and family violence, you may have been pointed to the Court’s Family Violence Best Practice Principles. It is a long, formal document. Many people cannot get through it, especially when they are already frightened, exhausted, or living with ongoing coercive control. This piece translates what the Court is saying about safety, disclosure, credibility, coercive control, systems abuse, and children. It also names what survivors often discover in practice, and why the gap between the two is not your fault.