Timothy W. v. Julia M.

Summary

The court affirmed the rulings declining judicial recusal, keeping the modification hearings open, and admitting the communications between Julia and Jackie into evidence. It vacated the visitation order because the trial court did not make sufficient findings establishing that Timothy and Jackie were domestic living partners when the acts of domestic violence occurred. The court held that a domestic living partnership requires a significant amount of time in a shared, marriage-like domestic environment, but remanded for findings concerning the partnership's timing, household arrangements, and relationship to the offenses.