Abuse of process is the misuse of the judicial process in order to achieve an improper goal. This differs from malicious prosecution where there is no justification for filing a lawsuit. Abuse of process there is a legal justification for filing a suit but the the abuser, is abusing the process to try and gain some sort of advantage end result.
This would be a person who files repeated court motions in an attempt to get you to settle the case, rather than deal with the multiple hearings.
