Gov. Kathy Hochul joins domestic violence service providers to discuss New York's discovery laws.NDZ/STAR MAX/IPx/AP

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill late Friday night that provides a remedy for victims of coerced debt—a kind of financial abuse where bad actors either take out lines of credit in another person’s name without them knowing or pressure someone into accruing debt.

The law, headed by Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal and Sen. Cordell Cleare, is poised to help provide an avenue for survivors of intimate partner violence to leave abusive situations without being held down by debt they oftentimes didn’t even know they were accruing. 

“This law will be transformative in providing financial relief for survivors, and I am thinking of so many........

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