Marriage of Williams and Duval CA2/2

BACKGROUND

Restraining order Appellant’s former spouse, Tammy Ladonna Williams Boesch (Williams), obtained a DVPA restraining order against appellant on April 17, 2008. The order required, among other things, that appellant stay at least 100 yards away from Williams, Williams’s and appellant’s two minor children, and the children’s school. The restraining order was in effect until June 10, 2008, but was subsequently renewed by the trial court to December 10, 2008, December 10, 2009, December 18, 2010, and December 10, 2013. On November 5, 2013, Williams filed a request to renew the restraining order permanently on the grounds that appellant had continued to harass her and to interfere with her custody of their children since the order was last renewed. In support of her request, Williams submitted a declaration in which she described appellant’s conduct between 2009 and 2013. Appellant opposed renewal of the order on the ground that the previous DVPA order was void. Both parties testified at the November 27, 2013 contested hearing. Williams testified that appellant had gone to the children’s school during the summer, in violation of the existing restraining order, and that he…