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Background The relevant background is not contested. 3 The parties’ son was born in November 2018. Immediately following the child’s birth, mother initiated a claim with the local child support agency in Los Angeles, which filed a child support action against father in Los Angeles Superior Court. Subsequent testing established father’s paternity. Mother was added as a party to that action and a stipulated judgment was entered in May 2019. In the meantime, in February 2019, father initiated the present action under the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, section 6200 et seq., in San Francisco, requesting protective orders as well as sole legal and physical custody of his son. In support of his request for a protective order, father submitted documents evidencing mother’s repeated online cyberstalking and harassment of father, conduct which as discussed post, led to the filing of criminal charges against mother in the San Francisco Superior Court. The petition also alleges that mother has a criminal history of domestic violence and at that time in Utah was facing electronic harassment charges involving a different victim. Much if not all of the threatening and harassing behavior…