Moore

On August 18, 2011, the family law court dismissed this entire family law action, finding it had lost jurisdiction over the case.

Riverside County Department of Child Support Services (the Department), the party opposing dismissal, appeals, contending that the family law court retained jurisdiction to make support orders.

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FACTS

On July 31, 2006, plaintiff Dawn Moore filed a request for a domestic violence prevention order on Judicial Council form DV-100. The request asked the court to protect her from defendant Maurice Clement Bedard, Jr., the father of their three children.

In the request, plaintiff also requested the court to order child custody, visitation, and/or child support. As form DV-100 requires, she did so by filing Judicial Council form DV-105, formerly entitled “Child Custody, Visitation and Support Request.” In that form, she requested that a prior child custody order, entered in August 2002, be modified. She also requested child support.

A hearing on the request for a temporary restraining order was held on August 22, 2006. The parties presented a stipulation to the court. The court approved the stipulation and ordered it to be filed. At…