Marriage of L.R. and K.A. CA4/1

INTRODUCTION

L.R.1 (Mother) appeals from a family court minute order that confirmed an earlier ex parte order suspending her visitation rights and directed the transportation of the minor child to the office of Minor’s counsel so the child could be transferred to K.A. (Father). Because neither of these rulings is appealable, and because the order directing the transfer of the child has expired and is also now moot, we dismiss the appeal.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

This appeal arises from what appears to be a long, contentious custody battle between the parties in what is now a six-year-old dissolution case. Mother filed a petition for dissolution on October 26, 2015. The parties have a 10-year-old daughter (the child) and have been co-parenting her under pendente lite child custody and visitation orders. As best as we can determine from the record before us, other than a status-only judgment terminating the marriage entered on November 1, 2018, there has been no trial or judgment entered on any issues in the dissolution, including child custody and

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Pursuant to rule 8.90 of the California Rules of Court, we refer to the parties by first and last…