Fonner v. Fonner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a victim is not required to wait for physical or sexual abuse to occur in order for the Protection from Abuse Act to apply
• concluding that the evidence constituted “reasonable fear of imminent serious bodily injury” where the appellant was loud, angry, and badgering the appellee, but the only physical contact to occur was when the appellant touched the appellee’s arm
• noting that this Court “defers to the credibility determinations of the trial court as to the witnesses who appeared before it”
• noting that “the victim’s fear of serious bodily injury must simply be reasonable”
• testimony that Husband screamed at Wife, briefly touched her arm to restrain her, and punched a wall near her was sufficient to sustain the grant of a PFA
• “This court defers to the credibility determinations of the trial court as to witnesses who appeared before it.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).