Cerda

BACKGROUND

David is Robert’s father. Patty is David’s wife. Grace is Robert’s minor daughter. In 2013, Robert was granted joint legal custody of Grace with Grace’s mother, Sally Talavera, in family law case No. MF006143.2 The April 11, 2013 custody order gave Talavera physical custody of Grace. Talavera subsequently relinquished physical custody of Grace to David and Patty, who were appointed as Grace’s legal guardians in 2015 in Los Angeles Superior Court case No. BP157995. In 2015, David and Patty obtained a five-year restraining order against Robert that expired in May 2020. David filed a petition for the DVRO that is the subject of this appeal in November 2020. At the February 5, 2021 and March 15, 2021 hearing on David’s DVRO petition, David, Patty, and Robert testified about incidents described in David’s declaration in support of the

Because the parties share the same surname, we refer to them by their first names to avoid confusion. We granted Robert’s request for judicial notice of the custody order issued in that 2013 case. The custody order gives Robert joint legal custody of Grace with Grace’s mother, Talavera. The order gives physical custody of Grace to…