N.B. v. S.K.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

FISHER, P.J.A.D.

These appeals require consideration of the not uncommon circumstance, during settlement of a divorce action, of a domestic violence victim’s agreement to vacate a final restraining order (FRO) entered pursuant to the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act (the PDVA), N.J.S.A. 2C:25-17 to -35, and to replace the FRO with restraints in the divorce action (the matrimonial restraints). Here, in 2012, after the matrimonial restraints proved ineffectual for years, plaintiff N.B. filed a domestic violence action and, upon that action’s dismissal,…