Marriage of Huang and Yang CA1/1

facts.” (Conservatorship of Kevin A. (2015) 240 Cal.App.4th 1241, 1253.) Accordingly, even if the factual and procedural sections of a brief contain some citations to the record on appeal, this does not “not cure the failure to cite evidence in the argument section of the brief, and we will not pick and choose the portions of the brief in the statement of facts that we may

2 think are applicable to each assertion in the argument. [California Rules of Court,] [r]ule 8.204(a)(1)(C) is intended to enable the reviewing court to locate relevant portions of the record ‘without thumbing through and rereading earlier portions of a brief.’ [Citation.] To provide record citations for alleged facts at some points in a brief, but not at others, frustrates the purpose of that rule, and courts will decline to consider any factual assertion unsupported by record citation at the point where it is asserted.” (Alki Partners, LP v. DB Fund Services, LLC (2016) 4 Cal.App.5th 574, 590, fn. 8, quoting City of Lincoln v. Barringer (2002) 102 Cal.App.4th 1211, 1239, fn. 16.) Appellant’s opening brief (the only brief filed in this appeal)2 is painfully short on citations to the record on appeal. For…