Case Title: Baines v. Hunter

Citation: 

Docket Number: 526, 2017

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
SETH BAINES,1 
 
 
Respondent/Petitioner Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
JENNIFER T. HUNTER, 
 
Petitioner/Respondent Below, 
Appellee. 
§ 
§  No. 526, 2017 
§ 
§  Court Below—Family Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
§     
§  File No. CN11-02650 
§  Petition Nos. 17-30157  
§  and 17-30452  
§   
§ 
 
 
 
 
 
  Submitted:  March 23, 2018 
 
 
 
 
 
  Decided:  May 22, 2018 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice; VALIHURA and VAUGHN, Justices. 
 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
This 22nd day of May 2018, upon consideration of the parties’ briefs and the 
record below, the Court concludes that the November 14, 2017 Family Court order 
granting the petitioner/respondent below-appellee’s petition for a rule to show cause 
should be affirmed.  To the extent the respondent/petitioner below-appellant claims 
that the Family Court disregarded the evidence he offered or disputes the Family 
Court’s factual findings, we cannot review those claims in the absence of a transcript 
                                                 
1 The Court previously assigned pseudonyms to the parties under Supreme Court Rule 7(d).  
2 
 
of the November 7, 2017 rule to show cause hearing.2  The appellant has not 
provided  a transcript of the November 7, 2017 rule to show cause hearing.   
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the Family 
Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/Karen L. Valihura 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
 
 
                                                 
2 Supr. Ct. R. 14(e) (requiring that “the appellant's appendix shall contain such portions of the trial 
transcript as are necessary to give this Court a fair and accurate account of the context in which 
the claim of error occurred and must include a transcript of all evidence relevant to the challenged 
finding or conclusion”); Tricoche v. State, 525 A.2d 151, 154 (Del. 1987) (holding the burden is 
on the appellant to produce parts of the trial transcript that are necessary to give the Court the 
context of the claim).