Y.L.

Y.L. v. L.T. CA6

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Court of Appeal of CaliforniaNovember 1, 2022H048453California5,446 words

Opinion

Opinion

Lie, J.

I. BACKGROUND

L.T. and Y.L. were married in 2010 and have two children—Z.T., born in 2014, and E.T., born in 2017. At the time of the relevant events, L.T. was a senior engineer for a technology company and Y.L. was running a startup producing a Singaporean food product. A. Y.L.’s Claims of Abuse by L.T.1 Starting in 2016 or 2017, L.T. routinely monitored Y.L. through video and/or internet surveillance and a tracking device on her car. As tensions mounted during the marriage, L.T. further “engaged in an unrelenting verbal campaign” at all hours and in the presence of their children, in which he disparaged Y.L., her business, her parenting, and her preference to remain in California rather than relocate to Singapore. The trial court found that L.T.’s disparagement of Y.L. in the presence of their children caused Y.L. sufficient emotional distress that, on Mother’s Day 2018, after L.T. told Z.T. that “mama doesn’t love you,” Y.L. exited the still-moving family car as L.T. was driving it on the freeway. The trial court found that L.T.’s conduct in the presence of the children on another occasion in August 2018 drove Y.L. to call to police in distress: L.T. followed Y.L.…

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