In Re Marriage of Padilla and Kowalski

PRESIDING JUSTICE GORDON delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

*461 ¶ 1 The instant appeal arises from the trial court's continuance of an emergency ex parte order of protection, which awarded petitioner Martha Padilla the physical care and possession of the 12-year-old son of petitioner and respondent Robert Kowalski. The order of protection had been continued a number of times over 10 months, and the trial court order at issue on appeal ordered that respondent's motion for rehearing on the order of protection would not be heard until certain other pending motions had first been…