Chapter 258e News Today

Where a harassment prevention order was extended for one year, the order was issued and extended in error because the plaintiff did not present sufficient evidence of three acts of “harassment,” as G.L.c. 258E requires. “The plaintiff and the defendant were involved in a dating relationship intermittently between 2015 and 2019. In May of 2021,

Where a harassment prevention order was extended pursuant to G.L.c. 258E, a reversal is warranted because the record fails to support a finding that the defendant engaged in at least three separate acts directed at the plaintiffs that were intended to, and did, cause the plaintiffs fear, intimidation, abuse, or damage to property. “The defendant,