Thank you for that.
I will move to Witness 1 and Witness 2.
Thank you for your courage today in speaking about your situation. Honestly, bringing to light to this committee as we study the criminalization of coercive control.... I think we have a unanimous understanding from the majority of witnesses we've heard that coercive control needs to be criminalized. However, there is concern about ensuring that the abuser isn't using it to manipulate.
I'm finding in these testimonies that there seems to be a very strong missing link of psychiatry in the family court system, when analyzing these personality disorders. The very terms that are supposed to be used to protect folks are then turned against them, and they become victims of them.
Witness 1, can you clarify how much money you had to spend based on the court order for these forced therapies?