Jana Gehrke v. Chad Gehrke

[¶ 1] Following a pattern of violence, threats, suicide threats, and failure to comply with increasingly restrictive court orders, Chad Gehrke appeals from a judgment entered in the District Court (Skow-hegan, Benson, J.) extending a protection from abuse order protecting his ex-wife, Jana Gehrke, and the parties’ three sons for an additional two years. He argues that the court erred in relying on evidence of conduct that occurred before the original protection from abuse order was entered in finding that the extended order was “necessary” to protect Jana and the children, and that the…