He took the money to Atlantic City and lost it all. The Court reinstated him because his affinity for gambling with other people's money is a handicap and thus protected under federal law. He successfully sues on the basis that he is being discriminated against because he has only exposed himself in libraries and laundromats, not in public parks. I have never found a judicial officer who treated physical cruelty with anything but the seriousness it deserves. There is scarcely a separated spouse who does not believe that he or she was in an abusive relationship.
Abuse is a powerful term.
But it is routinely used to describe shouting, badgering, voice raising, walking away when angry. Think for a minute about your private relationship. So as not to raise a bald allegation, the particulars given of the marital discord become very detailed. This leads to the problem of the affidavit. The nature of a family law case is that the interim motion is often the most important single event in the proceeding.