LAEL FISHER WOODS vs CHRISTOPHER PATRICK WOODS
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Opinion
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED
LAEL FISHER WOODS,
Appellant, Case No. 5D22-825 v. LT Case No. 05-2021-DR-016706-X
CHRISTOPHER PATRICK WOODS,
Appellee.
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Opinion filed February 24, 2023
Nonfinal Appeal from the Circuit Court for Brevard County, Robert Segal, Judge.
Elizabeth Siano Harris, of Harris Appellate Law Office, Mims, for Appellant.
Heather C. Harris, of The H. Harris Law Firm, Merritt Island, for Appellee.
PER CURIAM. Appellant, Lael Woods, asks this Court to reverse the trial court's order
denying her petition which sought a permanent domestic violence injunction
against her husband, Appellee, Christopher Woods. Evidentiary hearings
were conducted over the space of several days. The court found that there
had been actual domestic violence by Appellee against Appellant, but
concluded that it was too remote in time. The trial court determined that
there was no basis to find an objectively reasonable risk of imminent
domestic violence.
“A trial court's ruling on a petition for a domestic violence injunction is
reviewed for abuse of discretion.” Delgado v. Ortiz, 326 So. 3d 203, 203
(Fla. 5th DCA 2021). “In conducting this review, this Court focuses on
whether the trial court’s determination is supported by competent, substantial
evidence, with a focus on the legal sufficiency as opposed to the evidentiary
weight.” Id. Here, the trial court took testimony and had the ability to evaluate
the parties and their circumstances from a vantage point far superior to ours.
We conclude that the trial court’s decision is supported by competent,
substantial evidence and finding no abuse of discretion on the part of the trial
court in denying the petition for injunction, we are obliged to affirm.
AFFIRMED.
WALLIS, EDWARDS and EISNAUGLE, JJ., concur.
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