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-Atlanta Legal Aid News and Stories
"Staff Attorney Bri Erwin supervised JoAnna Smith, an Emory extern, this Fall in obtaining Twelve Month Temporary Protective Orders (TPO) for two of our clients. 
One client's husband abused her and threatened her life, abused their six-year old child and killed two family pets. Ms. Smith, practicing under the Third Year Practice Act, obtained a TPO that provided a variety of relief for our client: child support and alimony, and possession of the marital home and car. The judge also ordered drug/alcohol and psychological evaluation and treatment for the husband. 
In another very disturbing case, Ms. Smith represented a mother of two young children in a contested hearing, with a seasoned attorney representing the father. Ms. Smith impressively obtained a TPO protecting our client and her two sons from their father, who has serious, untreated mental illness and who viciously abused them. The father had beaten, choked and raped our client while the children were in the home. Our client was in fear for her life because of the unrelenting abuse, and she also knew that he had access to guns. Not only did Ms. Smith obtain the TPO, but she proved that the father violated the Ex Parte TPO and requested his immediate incarceration. He was immediately taken into custody at the end of the hearing."

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