A domestic violence restraining order can provide in advance for protection of a child not yet born, a state judge has ruled in a case of first impression.
"[W]hile a fetus is not yet legally a person, upon live birth the fetus becomes a person, with rights of redress and protection from harms which originated before birth," Superior Court Judge Lawrence Jones held in B.C. v. T.G., FV-15-1033-13, approved for publication on May 3.
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