P.M.

I.

INTRODUCTION

Appellant S.S. appeals from the trial court’s denial of her petition for a domestic violence restraining order (DVRO) against respondent P.M. The history between S.S. and P.M. is lengthy and disputed. According to S.S., she filed the petition for a DVRO after the couple’s daughter, N., disclosed to S.S. that P.M. had sexually abused her. S.S. also alleged that P.M. had engaged in other harassing or abusive behavior toward S.S. After conducting a hearing that took place over multiple nonconsecutive days, the trial court determined that S.S. was not credible and concluded that S.S. had failed to meet her burden to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the alleged abuse occurred. On appeal, S.S. contends that in denying the petition for a DVRO, the trial court abused its discretion in various ways and failed to properly consider and address certain evidence of past abuse. She also contends that the trial court improperly relied on a debunked “pseudo-scientific theory” regarding parental alienation in determining that S.S.’s accusations regarding the sexual abuse of N. were not credible. We conclude that S.S. has not demonstrated that the court’s findings…