[quote=Gia;21045]Just to protect yourself and your friend, purchase an inexpensive telephone recording device. They are the most efficient and the least expensive at Radio Shack (approx $16.00). The Radio Shack salesman will show you how to set it up. Believe me, it's very easy. I caught my soon to be ex-husband via a Radio Shack recording device ordering "phone sex and an escort service with our joint credit card"! I used this in court at our divorce hearing!

Although the wire taping laws protect the abuser (because they are supposed to know ahead of time that they are being recorded or else he can threaten you for invading his privacy), In this case, Your friends life is worth more than the ridiculous "wire taping laws!" Do not tell anybody that you are recording their phone calls! If he severely beats her up, you can phone the Texas police and file a second party complaint against your friend's abusive husband (play the recorded tapes of your friend being abused (screaming)and her husband threatning you to the police and the detective on call. This way, the police will definately take you seriously and have a warrant for his arrest. Also, recommend that your friend phone a women's shelter so that she and her children can stay there for help! There are many women's advocate counselors there, women's attorneys. They will point your friend in the right direction! Call her local police department in Texas for the closest Women's shelter!

To protect you and your family, you need to file an "Order of Protection, same as a Restraining Order, also referred to as a Harrassment Order against him!) Go to a Free Legal workshop in your county. Ask about Sliding fee scales. You can file this restraining order against him on your own and it will cost you no more than $50.00. Free in some states and counties on a sliding fee scale![/quote]

you are one woman i would not want to cross..