Arizona

What “pattern” means here

HB 2995 (Alec and Lydia Act, signed June 2026) treats coercive control as a pattern of violent, threatening, coercive, or emotionally abusive conduct, with enumerated tactics including isolation, financial monitoring, surveillance, coerced criminality, and weaponized litigation. Pattern language is statutory. A two-week cluster is not, by itself, the statutory pattern.

Statutes

• Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 25-403.03 (as amended by HB 2995, 2026)

  Custody / legal decision-making; coercive control folded into the domestic-violence definition.

Expert standard

Confirm the forum's reliability standard (Daubert, Frye, Sargon, or the local equivalent).

What Carlton Research can speak to

Carlton Research can speak to pattern analysis (coercive control breadth, depth, escalation, entrapment, and more). Research is built to the evidentiary rules of the jurisdiction that will hear it. Carlton Research does not recommend parenting time or custody. Research establishes whether a pattern of coercive control is present. Inquire about specific testimony requests or speaking engagements.

Deep dossier: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 25-403.03 (HB 2995) names specific behaviors. Naming them in the statute is not a finding that they are present in a case.