Matter of Suzanne QQ. v. Ben RR.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Ulster County (McGinty, J.), entered January 22, 2015, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, granted petitioner’s motion for, among other things, a temporary order of protection against respondent.

Petitioner (hereinafter the mother) and respondent (hereinafter the father) are the unwed parents of a child (born in 2003). The mother has been the child’s primary caretaker since 2010, when the parties ended their relationship. In 2013, after the father allegedly engaged in a variety of inappropriate behavior toward and…