Volume 565 — Pacific Reporter, Third Series

¶0 After the appellee, Heather Kite, and the appellant, Jessica Culbertson got into a physical altercation, Kite sought a Victim's Protection Order (VPO) against Culbertson, in the District Court of Oklahoma County. Culbertson was the live-in girlfriend of the father of Kite's two children with whom Kite shares joint custody. The trial court granted a VPO, prohibiting Culbertson from contact with Kite or her children for five years. Culbertson appealed, arguing that the trial court erred in issuing the VPO. We retained the cause to review whether the trial court abused its discretion by issuing the VPO. We hold that it did not.

¶ 0 Petitioner, Amy Lynn McTeer, filed a petition for reinstatement to membership in the Oklahoma Bar Association. Both the Professional Responsibility Tribunal and the OBA recommended that Petitioner's reinstatement be denied. After a de novo review, Petitioner's application for reinstatement is denied.

¶0 Mother seeks to vacate a default judgment entered against her which determined the paternity of her child and granted custody thereof to Father. Mother challenges the sufficiency of the service of summons by publication, claiming defects therein and that the trial court abused its discretion when it denied her motion to vacate. We retained the matter and now reverse.

Did Reilly's "rights and duties" mature before the effective date of the Predatory Debt Collection Act and therefore fall under the purview of its Saving Clause, when Reilly obtained and recorded a judgment against the Canales' homestead property years before the Act but did not seek to force the property's sale until after the Act's effective date?