Raker v. Raker

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the intent of the alleged abuser is of no moment
• defining preponderance as “the greater weight of the evidence, i.e., to tip a scale slightly”
• defining preponderance as “the greater weight of the evidence, i.e., to tip a scale slightly”
• “If the trial court found the testimony to involve events too distant in time to possess great relevance to the case, it could certainly have assigned less weight to the testimony.”
• “In the context of a PFA case, the court’s objective is to determine whether the victim is in reasonable fear of imminent serious bodily injury…. [The a]ppellant’s intent is of no moment.”
• “[I]n light of the purpose of the [PFA] Act to prevent imminent harm to abused persons, some flexibility must be allowed in the admission of evidence relating to past acts of abuse.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).