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Dating Relationship defined | Text messages & Serial stupidity

Following a trial, the judge entered a final restraining order in favor of plaintiff J.S., based on findings that the parties were in a dating relationship and defendant J.F. made threatened and otherwise harassed plaintiff. Well, the John argued on appeal that since the plaintiff was a dancer in a club her frequented and he was paying for her company, their relationship did not constitute a "dating relationship" within the meaning of the domestic violence statute. Rather, it was a "professional" relationship.

Full post as published by Updates in Michigan Family Law on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).