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===Information for abused persons=== | ===Information for abused persons=== | ||
If you have suffered family violence, call the police; nothing will happen until you do. If there is evidence of abuse, the police can arrest your partner and may take him or her into <span class="noglossary">custody</span>. To find out more about what the police can do, you may wish to read [http:// | If you have suffered family violence, call the police; nothing will happen until you do. If there is evidence of abuse, the police can arrest your partner and may take him or her into <span class="noglossary">custody</span>. To find out more about what the police can do, you may wish to read [http://clicklaw.bc.ca/resource/2412 Getting Help from the Police or RCMP] and | ||
[http:// | [http://clicklaw.bc.ca/resource/2237 Surviving Relationship Violence and Abuse]. If your partner is taken into <span class="noglossary">custody</span>, he or she will stay there until a judge is able to speak to him or her. Most of the time, your partner will be released from <span class="noglossary">custody</span> until the trial date following the <span class="noglossary">brief</span> hearing, and the <span class="noglossary">release</span> will be on specific terms and conditions set out in a document called a Recognizance or an Undertaking. | ||
It's important that you call the police right away, or at least fairly soon after the violence. The police will sometimes refuse to take <span class="noglossary">action</span> against your partner on the ground that the complaint was made out of malice or a desire for revenge because of the breakdown of the relationship. | It's important that you call the police right away, or at least fairly soon after the violence. The police will sometimes refuse to take <span class="noglossary">action</span> against your partner on the ground that the complaint was made out of malice or a desire for revenge because of the breakdown of the relationship. | ||
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At the conclusion of the period of time specified in the court order, the status of your child will normally be reviewed. It may be critical that you use the intervening period of time to comply with any directions made by the court or the recommendations of the ministry about things such as special courses, programs or services that you should take, since the court will be looking to see whether the risks or deficiencies that caused the child to be removed are still there. If nothing has changed, the terms of the order will likely be continued. | At the conclusion of the period of time specified in the court order, the status of your child will normally be reviewed. It may be critical that you use the intervening period of time to comply with any directions made by the court or the recommendations of the ministry about things such as special courses, programs or services that you should take, since the court will be looking to see whether the risks or deficiencies that caused the child to be removed are still there. If nothing has changed, the terms of the order will likely be continued. | ||
To find out more about your rights when the ministry has concerns about a child's safety or plans to remove a child from the family home, you may wish to read the booklet [http:// | To find out more about your rights when the ministry has concerns about a child's safety or plans to remove a child from the family home, you may wish to read the booklet [http://clicklaw.bc.ca/resource/1060 Parents' Rights, Kids' Rights.]. | ||
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==Further Reading in this Chapter== | ==Further Reading in this Chapter== | ||