A family court judge should have extended an order of protection for a woman whose husband was arrested for allegedly violating the order and threatening to kill her after it expired, a Brooklyn appeals court ruled.
The decision by a panel of the Appellate Division, Second Department, in Matter of Molloy v. Molloy, 2014-07966, also clarified a 2010 change to New York’s Family Court Act allowing petitioners to seek extensions to orders of protection upon a showing of “good cause.”
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