According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 1 in 4 women and nearly 1 in 10 men have experienced a form of family violence by an intimate partner during their lifetime. See generally Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Preventing Intimate Partner Violence (Feb. 26, 2019), https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/fastfact.html.

In Texas, victims of family violence…