Pearsall v. Martin-Zenick

—In a family *241offense proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 8, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (McElligott, J.), entered December 22, 1997, which, after a hearing, dismissed his petition for an order of protection against the respondent.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The Family Court properly dismissed the petition for an order of protection upon its determination that the petitioner had failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the respondent committed acts constituting a cognizable family…