Ziyad

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

Gina filed a petition for dissolution of marriage in August 2008, and the petition was granted, effective December 31, 2009. The parties continued to litigate various matters, including child custody, child-support payments, and visitation.

1 For the sake of clarity, we refer to the parties by their first names since they share the same surname. (In re Marriage of Leonard (2004) 119 Cal.App.4th 546, 550, fn. 2.)

1 In the past few years, the parties have returned to court several times over Nigel’s obligation to make monthly payments to support his twin teenagers. In April 2013, following a hearing, the trial court ordered Nigel to pay $1,252 each month in child support (the April 2013 order). As part of the April 2013 order, the trial court found that Nigel had custody of the twins four percent of the time and had a monthly taxable gross income of $4,258, and that Gina had a monthly income of zero. Although Nigel did not appeal the order, he has tried multiple times to have it modified, with limited success. In Ziyad v. Ziyad (Oct. 28, 2014, A141194) [nonpub. opn.]), this court affirmed a January 7, 2014 order denying a request to modify…