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NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37

MATTHEW ADAM GUTSHALL 

Appellant

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KATIE N. MARSHALL

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 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF

 PENNSYLVANIA

 No. 529 WDA 2021

Appeal from the Order Entered March 11, 2021

In the Court of Common Pleas of Potter County Civil Division at No(s): 

247 of 2020

BEFORE: BENDER, P.J.E., DUBOW, J., and COLINS, J.*

MEMORANDUM BY COLINS, J.: FILED APRIL 28, 2022

Appellant, Matthew Adam Gutshall, appeals pro se from a final 

Protection from Abuse (PFA) order entered against him on March 11, 2021. 

After careful review, we affirm.

On August 28, 2020, Katie N. Marshall (Complainant) filed a petition for 

a PFA order and obtained a temporary PFA order against Appellant in the Court 

of Common Pleas of Potter County (trial court). On March 11, 2021, the trial 

court held a hearing on whether a final PFA order should be entered. At this 

hearing, Complainant testified that in February 2020, Appellant came to her 

home drunk, would not leave, and kept repeatedly banging on the doors and 

windows of her house to the point that she was afraid that he would kick the 

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* Retired Senior Judge assigned to the Superior Court.
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door in. N.T., 3/11/21, at 6-8. Complainant testified that after Appellant was 

charged with trespassing for that incident, Appellant repeatedly called her 

threatening that she would be charged with perjury if she testified against him 

and saying that he would come to her house. Id. at 8-13. Complainant also 

testified that she was afraid of Appellant because five or six years earlier, 

Appellant had choked her, pulled her hair out, and threatened to kill her. Id.

at 7-8. At the end of the hearing, the trial court determined that a final PFA 

order was warranted and entered a final PFA order that bars Appellant from 

contacting Complainant for a three-year period that ends on August 27, 2023

(the Final PFA Order). Id. at 15-16; Final PFA Order. Appellant filed a timely 

notice of appeal. 

The only argument that Appellant asserts in this appeal is that the trial 

court erred in entering the Final PFA Order because Complaint allegedly lied 

in her testimony at the PFA hearing. Appellant’s Brief at 3-9.

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 In an appeal 

from the entry of a PFA order, we review the evidence that was before the 

court in the light most favorable to the complainant, granting her the benefit 

of all reasonable inferences. Kaur v. Singh, 259 A.3d 505, 509 (Pa. Super. 

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1 Appellant does not raise any claim in this appeal concerning the length of 

time that passed between the entry of the temporary PFA and the hearing, at 

least part of which was apparently caused by a motion that he filed for recusal 

of the judge who had issued the temporary PFA order. See Appellant’s Petition 

for New Judge, filed 11/10/20. Appellant also does not argue that the facts 

to which Complainant testified were insufficient to support entry of a PFA 

order. 
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2021); Custer v. Cochran, 933 A.2d 1050, 1058 (Pa. Super. 2007) (en 

banc). In this review, we must defer to the credibility determinations of the 

court that entered the order. Kaur, 259 A.3d at 509; Custer, 933 A.2d at

1058. A complainant’s testimony by itself can be sufficient for entry of a PFA 

order if it is believed by the court. E.K. v. J.R.A., 237 A.3d 509, 523 (Pa.

Super. 2020); Custer, 933 A.2d at 1058.

Appellant’s argument fails because Complainant’s credibility was a 

matter for the trial court, who heard her testimony, and we are bound by its 

conclusion that her testimony was credible. Kaur, 259 A.3d at 509; Custer, 

933 A.2d at 1058. “It is well-settled that ‘the trier of fact while passing upon 

the credibility of witnesses and the weight of the evidence produced, is free 

to believe all, part or none of the evidence.’” Kaur, 259 A.3d at 509 (quoting 

Commonwealth v. Walsh, 36 A.3d 613 (Pa. Super. 2012)). 

Moreover, Appellant’s attacks on Complainant’s credibility are based on

factual allegations, documents, and purported quotations of alleged 

recordings of conversations that Appellant did not introduce in evidence at the 

hearing and that were not in the record that was before trial court. Appellant’s 

Brief at 6-8 & Exs. B, C. Such items that are not in the certified record cannot 

be considered on appeal. Commonwealth v. Young, 317 A.2d 258, 264 (Pa. 

1974); PHH Mortgage Corp. v. Powell, 100 A.3d 611, 614 (Pa. Super. 

2014); In re J.C., 5 A.3d 284, 288 (Pa. Super. 2010). We therefore cannot
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even consider these alleged conversations, events, and documents as grounds 

for reversal of the Final PFA Order. 

Because Appellant has not shown that the trial court erred in entering 

the Final PFA Order, we affirm.

Order affirmed.

Judgment Entered.

Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq.

Prothonotary

Date: 4/28/2022