Zozula

INTRODUCTION

Kaitlin Zozula filed a petition seeking a domestic violence restraining order (DVRO) against her mother Alicia Zozula.1 After a hearing pursuant to the Domestic Violence Prevention Act (DVPA; Fam. Code,2 § 6200 et seq.), the trial court granted the petition and issued the order. Alicia appeals, arguing the trial court abused its discretion in granting the petition as she refuted all of Kaitlin’s allegations. Because substantial evidence supports the trial court’s issuance of the DVRO, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On June 9, 2014, Kaitlin filed a petition for a DVRO against Alicia, seeking personal conduct and stay-away orders protecting herself and her six-year-old son Cash from Alicia. In her supporting declaration, Kaitlin said she had asked her mother on April 16 to leave her home (where Alicia had been living) because Alicia had come home drunk the night before, after driving Kaitlin’s car into a “pole/wall.” Because of Alicia’s “long history of alcohol abuse” and “the abuse [she (Kaitlin) had] endured growing up,” Kaitlin said she knew she needed to protect her son. When Alicia asked to see Cash, Kaitlin told her she would need to attend “AA”…