Tyll v. Willets

STROUD, Judge.

Defendant appeals order requiring she have no contact with plaintiff. For the following reasons, we reverse.

I. Background

“HAPPY FAMILIES ARE ALL ALIKE; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 3 (Melanie Hill & Kathryn Knight eds., Constance Garnett trans., 2005) (1875). The parties to this case are members of an unhappy family. Although the reasons for their unique unhappiness are not clear from the record before us, this case is one of the results. Plaintiff appears to be defendant’s brother; from the record, they share the same mother.…