Marriage of Gorin CA2/7

DISCUSSION

Appellant now asserts that the court erred in making the challenged order, but provides no legal authority for his claim of error.5 He also requests reversal of the order previously affirmed by this court. In our previous opinion, we made clear that appellant had the obligation to provide authority for his position: “Other than a single general citation to the Family Code, Alex fails to cite any authority setting forth the legal principles governing the court’s discretion in this case on the basis of which he contends the court abused that discretion….” “When an issue is unsupported by pertinent or cognizable legal argument it may be deemed abandoned and discussion by the reviewing court is unnecessary. [Citations.]” (Landry v. Berryessa Union School Dist. (1995) 39 Cal.App.4th 691, 699-700.) “[P]arties are required to include argument and citation to authority in their briefs, and the absence of these necessary elements allows this court to treat appellant's issue as waived.” (Interinsurance Exchange v. Collins (1994) 30 Cal.App.4th 1445, 1448.) On the last appeal, we nonetheless exercised our discretion to reach the merits. We decline to do so now. In a case,…