Marriage of Mojtahedzadeh v. Farshi CA4/1

BACKGROUND; PRIOR APPEAL

As outlined in our prior opinion, the parties were married and, as of 2011, they had

one son who was about age two and one daughter, age 14. Mother is highly trained in

medicine and Father, the same in physics, and they formerly lived in Iran. On February 28,

2011, Mother filed her petition for dissolution. She also obtained a reissuance of the

temporary DVRO. Numerous contested hearings ensued on that issue, and also on the

spousal/child support and property division issues in the dissolution.

On the DVRO request, a contested evidentiary hearing began on June 20 and

concluded on June 27, 2011. Mother recently made an unopposed request to augment this

record on appeal, to add the reporter's transcripts from those DVRO hearings (since she

claimed the evidentiary basis for the subject custody and visitation order included oral

evidence presented during those hearings). We granted that request. In our prior opinion,

we affirmed the DVRO, which prevents Father from contacting Mother and the children,

and modified it to clarify that its duration is five years (until June 26, 2016).

In the subject custody proceedings, litigated for several…