Deciding to leave is a crucial step to your safety and independence. Below is a checklist of items that you will need to begin your new life:
Identification
- Driver’s license
- Birth certificates (yours and children’s)
- Social Security Card
- Welfare identification
- Medial insurance cards
Money
- Money and/or credit card
- ATM card
- Savings books
- Checkbook
Legal Documents
- Lease, rental agreement or deed to house/properties
- Car registration & insurance papers
- Health and life insurance papers
- Medical records for you and your children
- School and shot record
- Work permits/green card or visa
- Passport
- Divorce papers
- Custody papers
- Orders of Protection
Other Things
- Medication for you and your children
- Keys to house, car and safety deposit boxes
- Address book
- Phone card
- Clothing
- Toiletries/Diapers
- Jewelry
- Pictures of you, children and your abuser
- Children’s small toys
(Source: Maricopa Association of Governments)
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