Each year, one in four women will report violence at the hands of an intimate partner during her lifetime. Funding from North Carolina’s Domestic Violence Victim Assistance Act provides legal aid to help more than 4,850 domestic violence victims and their children escape abuse and rebuild their lives. Together with other sources, Legal Aid of North Carolina and Pisgah Legal Services utilize funding though the Domestic Violence Victim Assistance Act to provide domestic violence legal services statewide.
Legal aid plays a pivotal role in helping victims of domestic violence escape abuse. Caroline’s story provides just one example of the many North Carolinians served each year due in part to this critical funding source. After years of enduring isolation, physical violence, and threats that he would kill them all, Caroline left the father of her three girls and got a protection order. Unfortunately the abuse didn’t end there.
