L. A. Cnty. Dep't of Children & Family Servs. v. F.D. (In re E.W.)

*374 *1169 The mother in this dependency case, F.D., appeals from the court's orders declaring her son, E.W., a dependent of the court; removing the child from the care, custody and control of the mother; releasing the child to the home of the father; terminating jurisdiction with a custody order awarding the father sole legal and physical custody; and ordering that the mother have no visitation with the child.

We need not recite the circumstances that led to the court's orders or the evidence that supports the orders. Mother's sole claim on appeal is that, under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA; Fam. Code, § 3400 et seq. ), 1 the court had no jurisdiction to make the orders. Mother is mistaken.

Mother and father are divorced. Mother lives in South Carolina and father resides in Los Angeles. Under a Family Law Order issued in California dated January 2, 2014, the parents shared joint legal custody of E.W. The child lived with mother in South Carolina and, among other visitation arrangements, spent nine weeks during the summers with his father in Los Angeles. The circumstances precipitating the removal of the child from his mother (allegations of…