State Laws

Click here to access NCADV's state specific fact sheets!

Below is a list of information regarding specific state domestic violence and sexual assault laws, child custody issues, protection orders and other resources related to domestic violence in a particular state. 

• Visit the ABA Commision on Domestic Violence Statutory Summary Charts webpage at http://www.abanet.org/domviol/statutorysummarycharts.html.
• Visit Women's Law for state-by-state legal information and resources for domestic violence (www.womenslaw.org).
• Click Here to view a chart comparing state protection orders.
• Victims Law: free, user-friendly access to information database including more than 15,000 victims' rights statutes (state and federal), tribal laws, constitutional amendments, court rules, and administrative code provisions.
• Click Here to download a state funding matrix complied by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. (Please not this file is EXTREMELY large and should only be downloaded with a highspeed internet connection.)
• Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Advocate Confidentiality Laws
• Statutes Allowing Fleeing Survivors Access to Protective Orders (7/2006)