L.S.
L.S. v. P.T. CA1/1
Opinion
Opinion
Smiley, J.
I. BACKGROUND
L.S. and P.T. married in Nepal in 2018. In 2021, they moved to California, where their twin girls were born in September 2022.
1 Such orders are governed by the Domestic Violence Prevention Act
(DVPA), Family Code section 6200 et sequitur. All further undesignated statutory references are to the Family Code. We refer to the parties by their initials to protect L.S.’s privacy, in accordance with rule 8.90(b)(1) of the California Rules of Court.
1 A. Life with P.T.’s Family in Nepal In Nepal, L.S. “had to live with” P.T.’s “extended big family.” She had to “do a lot of work,” including “cleaning, cooking, [and] washing the dishes,” she “had to wear . . . certain clothes all the time,” and she was not allowed to express her opinions or “to eat eggs.” P.T.’s family would “get angry at” L.S. and “shame [her] family” in connection with her behavior. Such “controlling” treatment was common in Nepal. In 2019, P.T. went to work in Singapore for four months, leaving L.S. with his family. According to L.S., she and P.T. had agreed to talk daily or every other day, but P.T. was uncommunicative while he was away. They quarreled about this. From Singapore, P.T. messaged L.S.,…