A.C. v. J.C.

On November 19, 2013, plaintiff A.C. obtained an ex parte abuse prevention order under G. L. c. 209A against defendant J.C. On December 3, 2013, after a hearing, a judge of the District Court extended the order until November 19, 2014. Another hearing before a second judge, of which there is no contemporaneous record due to an equipment malfunction, occurred on that later date, and the order was extended for three years.2 J.C. filed a timely notice of appeal of the three-year extension, but his appeal was dismissed by the second judge for failure to timely reconstruct the record pursuant to…