Seufert v. Seufert

Memorandum Opinion

Broderick, J.

The defendant, Christopher J. Seufert, appeals a Superior Court (Sullivan, J.) order granting the plaintiff’s domestic violence petition. We reverse.

*767In June 1996, the plaintiff, Mary E. Seufert, filed a domestic violence petition in superior court. She alleged that the defendant, her husband at the time, had hit her son and demonstrated other outbursts of anger such that she was afraid for her safety and the safety of her children. The superior court entered an ex parte temporary restraining order and set a hearing for early July 1996.

Following the hearing, the…