Decision confirming that affidavits of support are enforceable by the sponsored spouse, in this case an abused spouse, in family court as part of a divorce proceeding. Immigrant victims of domestic violence also could not be required to “mitigate damages” that would have effectively prevented and abused immigrant wife from enforcing and affidavit of support signed by her perpetrator in family court (Ca. Ct. App. July 28, 2017).
National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project