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POWELL v. POWELL

No. 86-1503.

547 A.2d 973 (1988)

Jacqueline POWELL, Appellant, v. Melvin POWELL, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 9, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Spielberg, with whom Susan Deller Ross and Sarah E. Burns, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Edward E. Schwab, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., filed a brief for amicus curiae, District of Columbia.

Laura A. Foggan, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, The Women's Legal Defense Fund.

Before PRYOR, Chief Judge, and FERREN and STEADMAN, Associate Judges.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal from a ruling of a trial court sitting in the Intrafamily Branch of the Family Division. The ruling challenged as erroneous was that the trial court lacked the authority to grant monetary relief as part of a civil protection order ("CPO") issued under the Intrafamily Offenses Act ("the Act"), D.C.Code §§ 16-1001 to -1006 (1981 & 1987 Supp.).

Jacqueline Powell, the appellant/petitioner, filed a petition...

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