Cesare v. Cesare

Defendant Richard Cesare appeals from the entry of a domestic violence order. He argues that the Family Part Judge erred as a matter of law in finding that he committed an act of domestic violence.

*60Kathleen Cesare, the plaintiff, and Richard Cesare, the defendant, had been married for thirteen years and had three children, ages 12, 10, and 6 at the time of the hearing. The plaintiff, a school teacher, testified that the couple had discussed ending their marriage for several years, and that she had left her husband, a landscaper, in August 1995, for a six-week separation after which they had…