Detwiler

BACKGROUND

A. Original domestic violence restraining order In May 2017, appellant requested a domestic violence restraining order against respondent for herself and the couple’s minor child (daughter). In the pleading, appellant described numerous incidents of abuse by respondent. In the earliest incident, “[respondent] was angry that the house was a mess,” and “didn’t speak” to appellant “or the kids” for several days. On the fourth day, when respondent “came into the house he threw his bike bag at” appellant and daughter, “and stomped up the stairs” to the couple’s room. Appellant was “scared” by respondent “acting violent,” so she decided to go to a friend’s house. Respondent “asked where [she] was going in a very angry tone,” and “made a snide comment about not being invited.” In the next incident, respondent “got very angry” when arguing with appellant about her children (his stepchildren), and “blocked [her] way out of [a] closet” as she was getting dressed in the morning. Later that day, respondent “stomped into the house and started knocking things over in the living room and kitchen.” That night, he yelled at her that she “was a bad mother” and “didn’t give him…