D.S.
D.S. v. J.E. CA4/3
Opinion
Opinion
Delaney, J.
FACTS
J.E. and D.S. were never married but have one child together who is now a teenager in high school. Since early on in the minor’s life, the parents have been engrossed in highly contentious legal battles with one
1 All further statutory references are to the Family Code unless
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2 another over paternity, child support, and custody. Details of some of their prior clashes, which another panel of this court described as “replete with evidence of not only antagonism between the parties, but outright acrimony,” are set forth in two prior unpublished opinions. (D.S. v. J.E. (Apr. 29, 2022, G058880); D.S. v. J.E. (Apr. 29, 2022, G059942).) This appeal primarily concerns custody and attorney fees related matters. In May 2022, at a time when J.E. and D.S. equally shared legal custody, J.E. had sole physical custody, and D.E. had weekly visitation rights, D.S. filed an ex parte request for an emergency temporary order granting him full legal custody over healthcare and educational matters. In a supporting declaration, D.S. indicated the minor’s school had excluded the minor from attending school in person roughly one month prior “because [J.E.] refuse[d] to consent…