State v. Price

{¶ 1} The question before us is whether an allocation of parental rights and responsibilities in a divorce decree can modify a civil protection order (“CPO”) beyond the CPO’s sections concerning parental rights and responsibilities. We hold that a divorce decree can so modify a CPO.

Factual and Procedural Background

{¶ 2} Appellant-defendant, Jeffrey Price, and Cathy Price had a child, J., on April 27, 1997. The couple married in April 1998. On September 21, 2000, while the couple was married but separated, the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division, issued a CPO…