A.M.C. v. P.B.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

FUENTES, P.J.A.D.

In this appeal, we are asked to determine whether the trial court erred when it denied plaintiff a final restraining order (FRO), pursuant to the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act (PDVA), N.J.S.A. 2C:25-17 to -35, even though it found that her husband, a police officer, physically assaulted her on two separate occasions over a three-week period. Applying the two-prong analysis we articulated in Silver v. Silver, 387 N.J.Super. 112, 125-27, 903 A.2d 446 (2006), the trial judge found an FRO was not necessary to protect plaintiff from…