Domestic violence affects millions of homes every year. As a result, the public "says no" to domestic violence, victims, now less aware that they have been victimized, are able to talk about their wrongs and can ask for help in prosecuting their perpetrators, both at the criminal and civil stages. The major initial effort to address domestic violence was the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, legislated in 1984. This legislation was designed to help states spread public awareness of family violence and to provide shelter and other support for victims of family violence and their children. Provides technology assistance, training and resource centers, and grants to states and nonprofit agencies to expand family violence services and model child domestic violence education programs. Years later, the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) was passed, reflecting a growing national recognition that domestic violence continues to be a serious problem. The federal policies expressed in VAWA should be viewed within the context of ongoing state efforts to provide legal antidotes to domestic violence. The federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) includes the need to strengthen policing, criminal justice, and the state justice system's litany of domestic violence; improve the set of prevention, intercession and counseling programs and defend immigrant women victims of abuse from deportation. However, while VAWA represents a significant step toward an inclusive national response to the domestic violence conundrum, its effectiveness has been limited. The resulting legal remedies have been criticized as overly narrow and have been embroiled in a constitutional dispute... midway through the paper... over consideration of bail and for previous violations of protection orders, establishing a new crime at the level of aggravated family crime, where the defendant and the victim are members of the same family or family circle, prohibiting a person who has been served with an order of protection or accused of the death of a decedent from directing the temper of the body of the person. For example, under state health law, a person who killed his or her spouse may have power over the body and funeral arrangements. This domestic violence legislation will prohibit a person from doing so and will protect families who will suffer after the terrible death of a loved one in the near future. This legislation represents a huge step forward in the fight to end domestic violence abuse, helping to deter these terrible crimes and impose more appropriate punishments when they occur.