Law firm founder faces 2nd domestic violence charge

Prosecutors have filed a second domestic-violence charge against the founder of The Men’s Divorce Law Firm, and an Orange County judge on Friday put off his trial until April.

Jeffrey Feulner, 43, also is now under a civil court order to stay away from his ex-wife, Ashlie Larson, 42, who filed both complaints against him. Neither one appeared in court Friday in front of Orange County Judge Wayne Shoemaker, but one of Feulner’s criminal defense lawyers did. Peter Zies said he needed more time to gather evidence.

In that case, Feulner is accused of punching his wife and pulling her hair as he drove through Orlando while the two struggled in their car Sept. 20, according to an Orlando police report. They were arguing, Larson told police; she turned on her cell phone to record what was happening; he grabbed it, and they struggled as she tried to get it back, the police report said.

Larson suffered a cut to her left arm, and an officer wrote that he saw clumps of her hair that had been pulled from her scalp, according to the report.

The criminal charge in the other case was made public Friday for the first time. Feulner and Larson were arguing Aug. 20 at their Baldwin Park home because she had picked up his cell phone and was looking through it, according to a police report. He then grabbed her breast, twisted it and forced her to the floor, the report said.

Feulner, who appears in television commercials and on billboards for The Men’s Divorce Law Firm has pleaded not guilty to both charges, said his attorney Hal Uhrig.

“We do not predict that he’s going to be convicted of anything,” Uhrig said.

Three weeks ago, a judge ordered Feulner to stay 500 feet away from Larson after she filed a new domestic violence injunction petition against him in Orange County. She had filed one earlier then withdrew it.