Will a criminal case speed up the process of divorce and if so, are there any useful alternatives?
1. Your mother does not have the right or ability to drop charges against him. Only the prosecutor has the ability to make that determination. Since a vast number of domestic violence victims will forgive the abuser, the prosecutor does not count on the support of the victim for the prosecution process and does not require the cooperation of the victim. The victim can literally sit on the witness stand and lie about NOT being abused, and the prosecutor will continue to try the case and the perpetrator can still be found guilty. 2. You don’t identify the state you are in, so it is impossible to tell you what consequences he is facing. You can Google the name of your state along with “state criminal laws” and try to find the laws in your state that specifically address this. You need to identify the level of the criminal charges: for example, what degree of assault was he charged with? Fourth? Third? In my state, third degree assault is a felony and fourth degree is a misdemeanor. Additi
