In re Dy.B. CA2/2

BACKGROUND

1. The Family Father and the twins’ mother, S.B. (mother), married in 2012. After three years of marriage, mother left father because of alleged verbal and physical abuse. Their divorce was finalized in 2017. Mother and father’s divorce was far from amicable. For years, they have engaged in a highly contentious and acrimonious divorce and custody battle. In a May 2018 statement of decision, when the twins were approximately five years old, the family law court stated, “the parties have had a contentious relationship with little cooperation. Each blames the other and each has invoked law enforcement and/or the

2 Department of Children and Family Services on thin pretexts or based on unwarranted assumptions. The parties should know that involving law enforcement to cure the parents’ abysmal communication risks unintended consequences. The parties’ longstanding failure of communication is harming the boys.” When the underlying proceedings began, the twins were nine years old. At that time, a family court order granted mother and father joint legal and joint physical custody of the twins. The twins stayed with father every second and fourth week of the month from…