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GETTING HELP Click on one of the following for specific areas:

Using the Law to Help You
In an Emergency
Protection at Home
Protection Outside Home
Make Your Family Safer
Safer at Work

Checklist (from MOVA brochure)

What you need to take when you leave:  These items might be best placed in one location so that if you have to leave quickly, you can access them.  It may also be a good idea to store them outside the home.

Identification

Checkbooks, bankbook, withdrawal slips

Pictures

Driver's license, car title & registration

Health insurance and medical card

Medical records for all family members

Self and children's birth certificates

Insurance papers

Social security card for self and children

Marriage certificate

House & car keys

Welfare identification

Money, credit cards, ATM card, telephone card

Medications & prescriptions

School records

Protective order

Small objects you can sell

Work permits

Passports for self and children

Divorce papers, including custody orders

Jewelry

Lease, rental agreement, house deed

Address book

Green card / immigration papers

Pets

Children's small toys

 


 
photo: young girl with doll
photo: birth certificate
photo: checkbook
photo: house & car keys