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Findings from a 2025 survey of 206 advocates across the country on barriers to disputing coerced debt.
A policy brief on redefining identity theft to include debt created by coercion.
A policy brief on using debt-collection law to release survivors from liability for coerced debt.
This report shares CSAJ’s key successes and levels of impact in 2023.
A co-created, national policy platform that sets a vision, values, and recommendations for survivor economic equity.
The purpose of this webinar is to share and discuss findings from the first in-depth study of coerced debt to enhance survivor-centered coerced debt advocacy and legal representation. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the study examined coerced debt among women divorcing abusive men. In this webinar, faculty will present and lead a discussion on the types and amounts of debt created, tactics used to incur the debt, the impact of coerced debt on survivors’ lives, and how survivors seek and attain help for coerced debt through family and consumer law. Attendees will also engage in discussion about implications for legal representation, advocacy, and possibilities for legal reform.
Anyone can experience intimate partner violence, but not all survivors have access to what they need to be, get, and stay safe.
This project is supported all or in part by Grant No. 2018-TA-AX-K010, Grant No. 2017-TA-AX-K065 and Grant No. 15JOVW-21-GK-02248-MUMU awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in the publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.