Marriage of Baraona CA5

FACTS

Letticia and Alexander were married in September 2017. Letticia had a son and a daughter from a previous relationship. In July 2018, Alexander moved to Visalia to start his new job as a sergeant at Corcoran State Prison. Previously, he had worked as a correctional officer at San Quentin State Prison. In August 2018, Letticia and her children arrived in Visalia. In June 2019, Letticia and Alexander separated. In July 2019, Alexander filed a petition for dissolution of marriage. The evidence relating to the grounds on which Letticia based her request for a domestic violence restraining order (DVRO) is not described in detail in this opinion

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Family Code.

2. because Letticia’s primary claim of reversible error relates to the superior court’s misinterpretation of the DVPA and its failure to consider nonphysical types of abuse. Our analysis of this claim of legal error in the court’s thought process does not require an extensive review of the evidence because we do not reach the question of prejudice—that is, whether there was a reasonable probability of a more favorable outcome in the absence of the claimed error. (See Cal.…