Financial Coercive abuse

I left my husband in 2016. Today is June 2025 and his attacks and ruses continue unchecked.

Since then I have had to relocate country and been subjected to lies and what I now understand is a criminal level of financial coercion.

This is a summary of how and when this behaviour was made illegal.

I am focusing here on the non-violent forms of abuse — the kind that, while lacking the shock factor of physical harm or tragic outcomes, may be the thicker end of the wedge. Precisely because these behaviours don’t result in injured children or bodies in morgues, they attract far less attention. Yet this form of controlling, malicious conduct is arguably a far more widespread and insidious manifestation of harm — one that seeps into everyday life, leaving deep, lasting damage.

December 29, 2015 — Coercive or controlling behaviour in intimate or family relationships became a criminal offenceunder Section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 in England and Wales.

This law was introduced because Many victims of domestic abuse were being controlled, isolated, and manipulated in ways that didn’t involve physical violence.

Financial control — such as denying access to money, controlling spending, or sabotaging work — was a common form of abuse, but hard to prosecute under previous laws

Coerces them (e.g., threats to withhold money or housing)