Torres

I. BACKGROUND

Alyssa was born in 2009. While father and mother never married, they lived together with Alyssa until July 2013. During that time, father worked and mother stayed at home, except for a brief period during which she worked part time at night. On January 14, 2013, while the family was still living under one roof, father filed a parentage action. He sought not only to establish his paternity, but also to obtain a child abduction prevention order barring mother from taking Alyssa to Michigan, as she allegedly had threatened to do on numerous occasions. The court issued a temporary protective order prohibiting Alyssa’s removal from California. The court entered a stipulated parentage judgment establishing mother and father as Alyssa’s parents on February 27, 2013. The court also ordered that mother and father sign up for orientation and mediation with family court services. Mother and Alyssa moved in with some of mother’s friends on July 23, 2013. Mother did not inform father she would be moving out that day, though he had served her with an eviction notice. He feared she had taken Alyssa to Michigan, where mother’s family lives. In early August 2013, mother filed an…