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Court awards $400,000 in compensatory damages for the newly recognized tort of intimate partner violence.
In a family law trial, the applicant sought equalization of net family property and damages for the tort of intimate partner violence.
The court resolved property valuation disputes, including valuing the respondent's extensive gun collection and excluding a property held in resulting trust.
Applying the newly recognized tort of intimate partner violence, the court found the respondent engaged in a decades-long pattern of coercive control, physical abuse, and psychological manipulation.
The court awarded the applicant $400,000 in compensatory damages, $25,000 in punitive damages, and issued a permanent restraining order.
