J.J. v. B.A.

No. 11-FM-1309.

68 A.3d 721 (2013)

J.J., Appellant, v. B.A., Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 18, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.J., pro se.

B.A., pro se.

Before BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY and McLEESE, Associate Judges, and SCHWELB, Senior Judge.


SCHWELB, Senior Judge:

J.J. appeals from a civil protection order (CPO) entered against her by the trial court on September 15, 2011, at the request of B.A., who at that time was her estranged husband. Because, in our view, the CPO was entered in contravention of the Full Faith and Credit Clause of Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution and was also contrary to familiar notions of comity, we reverse.

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