WomensLaw serves and supports all survivors, no matter their sex or gender.

Legal Information: West Virginia

Restraining Orders

View all
Updated: 
April 1, 2024

What is the legal definition of financial exploitation?

Financial exploitation is when someone:

  • steals or misuses your money or assets on purpose (“intentional misappropriation”); or
  • reduces your assets (“diminishment”) by influencing you to act against your own free will (“undue influence”).1

Financial exploitation does not include when a person makes an honest effort to help you manage your money or other things of value but you end up losing money.1

1 W. Va. Code § 55-7J-1(b)(3)

Legal Information

© 2008–2024 WomensLaw.org is a project of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, Inc. All rights reserved. This website is funded in part through a grant from the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). NNEDV is a 501©(3) non-profit organization; EIN 52-1973408.