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FACTS

1. The Background The child, H.H., was born in 2014. Mother and father were not married, and they separated in the summer or fall of 2019. Shortly after that, mother began a relationship with another man to whom she is now married. Until 2021, mother and father cooperated with each other and shared parenting responsibilities for H.H.; between October 2019 and May 2021, they provided relatively equal care for H.H. In February 2021, mother sought physical custody of H.H. and permission to relocate the child to Oak Park, Illinois, where her then-fiancé worked and lived with his two young children. Mother was pregnant with her fiancé’s child due in August 2021. Father opposed her petition. In May 2021, mother relocated to Oak Park, Illinois. The child remained in Los Angeles with his father, except for several weeks during the summer of 2021, while proceedings on mother’s

2 move-away request continued. (The parents stipulated to a parenting schedule “from approximately mid May 2021 through mid September 2021 (the trial),” and also that “[t]he temporary parenting schedule for the indicated period shall not be construed as or deemed the status quo.”) A trial took place on…