Tabarez

DISCUSSION

Tabarez argues that the court abused its discretion when it denied her request that counsel be appointed for K.R. and that psychological services be ordered for the child. Under Family Code section 3150, the court has discretion to appoint counsel for a minor child in a custody or visitation proceeding, if the court concludes that such appointment would be in the child’s best interest. Under Family Code section 3190, subdivision (a)(1)&(2), the court may order a minor child and parents in a custody or visitation dispute to participate in outpatient counseling with a licensed mental health professional if the court finds that the dispute between parents poses a

2 substantial danger to the best interest of the minor child and that counseling would be in the child’s best interest. Although Tabarez now argues that the court abused its discretion when it made orders regarding appointment of counsel and psychological services, this argument suffers from a fundamental defect, i.e., that the absence of a hearing transcript renders the record fatally incomplete for our review. A judgment is presumed correct. (Rhule v. WaveFront Technology, Inc. (2017) 8 Cal.App.5th 1223, 1229…