Australian Journal of Family Law, 2020, 33(3):

Intimate partner violence is recognised globally as a complex social problem, sitting at the intersection of health, law and finance. Now commonly recognised as a pattern of coercive control, rather than isolated incidents of physical violence, intimate partner violence encompasses a range of control tactics. Financial violence/control is often used in intimate partner violence to entrap an intimate partner. It does not need physical proximity to cause harm and is defined as the ways in which perpetrators use financial resources to control and terrorise their intimate partner. Its continuation post-separation is the focus of this article. I draw on interviews with 15 women, intimate partner violence victim-survivors with experience of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Family Court, to provide insight into what financial violence/control looks like post-separation and the ongoing costs it, and court proceedings, impose on survivors of intimate financial violence. (Author's abstract). Record #8390