Melissa Cohen: New Jersey's Coercive Control Law, Explained

New Jersey's family courts have always been able to weigh a person's full history when deciding a restraining order, whether or not anything was ever reported before. Attorney Melissa Cohen says that's been an advantage over states where a single incident has to fit neatly into one legal box. The state's new coercive control law builds on that foundation. Melissa Cohen is a family law attorney at Seiden Freed in Cranford, New Jersey, where she handles the full range of family law matters alon...