Vergara

I. BACKGROUND

According to Vergara’s complaint, he married Tara Snyder in 2011, and they had two children together. By 2015, Snyder decided to divorce Vergara, and with Snyder’s consent Vergara took their two children to Chile, where Vergara was born. In December 2016, after the stay had been extended several times, Snyder arrived in Chile and told Vergara that she planned to return to California with the children the next month. When Vergara objected to the children leaving so quickly, Snyder sought and obtained an interim custody award from a Chilean court, which was finalized in July 2017. Snyder and the children returned to the United States, and in December 2018, the trial court granted sole legal custody to Snyder. In the order awarding custody, the trial court granted Vergara “professionally and therapeutically supervised” visitation with his children. The order stated that supervision was to be carried out by a third party mutually agreeable to the parents but that Snyder would select the supervisor if there was no agreement on the party. The order also provided that the supervisor would be a licensed therapist who would be available to consult with Vergara concerning his…