A.R.

BACKGROUND

Mother filed a petition for writ of supersedeas seeking an order staying the trial court’s order which is the subject of this appeal. We denied her petition for writ of supersedeas by order dated December 1, 2015. The record before us consists only of the exhibits to mother’s petition for writ of supersedeas, which mother has requested this court use “as her Appendix in Lieu of Clerk’s Transcript.” We grant mother’s request to deem the exhibits her appellate appendix. Although mother has waived her right to appellate review by her failure to provide an adequate record, we nonetheless have studied the portions of the record provided to us, in view of the importance to the parties and to their child of the issues raised on appeal. 1. The Paternity Action and Custody Orders Mother and father have never been married. In June 2011, G.R.N. was born prematurely, and was hospitalized in UCLA’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). On July 1, 2011, while G.R.N. was still in the NICU, mother sought a domestic violence restraining order against father, claiming that he was harassing hospital staff, and had threatened her and the baby. On July 18, 2011, father commenced this…