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False Accusations of Domestic Violence

By Ron Chapman

          Do current immigration laws in the United States encourage one spouse to falsely accuse the other spouse of domestic violence?  This became an important question in a recent case of mine in which my client, who was a permanent legal resident of the United States, was accused by his wife of domestic battery.              My client and his wife were going through a divorce, and she was living in the U.S. illegally.  My client maintained that she was falsely accusing him of domestic battery so that she could become a legal resident of the United States.  With that thought in mind, I began researching the relationship between U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on July 03, 2009 (boomark / email).