The 2008 "event" is the one that has the most information. (
based on this news report)
In June 2008 DS claimed that he was attacked by VS, during which the oldest daughter was also injured. Apparently VS was at some point was on probation for domestic violence, allthough it isn't clear if it is for the same incident.
In July 2008 DS files for divorce and VS obtains a PPO claiming physical abuse, threats and DS having an apparent sexual interest in her (which I though was an odd thing to have in a PPO filing). It isn't clear which came first, but if all this stemmed from the June incident then the DS filing probably preceeded the VS PPO.
All this legal stuff is a tit for tat retaliation, so the first person to file is likely the aggrieved party. It would be interesting to know which came first I think.
In August DS gets a PPO himself. In that he claimed that she had some sort of mental disorder and was on medication, which she was failing to take. I'm not sure how these PPOs work, but if you are making a claim of fact I expect you would be have to produce evidence for it.
Interestingly, all of the VS filings were made in St. Joseph county, while all of the VS filings were apparently in Kalamazoo county. Don't know what that means, but maybe there is some significance there.
Then at some later date they appear to reconcile and everything is dismissed.
It appears that there was some sort of blowup in June and they were clearly in the process of splitting up,
both parties made it very clear that they didn't want to be around each other.
