H.B.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The parties married in 2009. Their sons, Lu. and Le., were born in 2017 and 2020. In February 2022, H.B. separated from appellant and petitioned for dissolution of marriage. H.B. requested sole custody of the children. She wrote that appellant “can be emotionally abusive with the children and has not spent any quality time alone with them.” They are not bonded and four-year-old Lu. fears appellant, who lashes out and is “capricious.” H.B. wrote that appellant “inappropriately exposed himself to the children while masturbating” in December 2021. H.B. claimed to have video of this lewd act. In a DVRO request, H.B. wrote that appellant threatens to not pay bills and “emotionally abuses [her] and the children daily . . . [She] is fearful he may harm [the] children and herself.” She alleged that appellant “fondles himself daily and in front of the

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Family Code. We use initials to identify family members. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.90(b)(1) & (11).) H.B. has not filed a brief in this appeal.

2 children” and “walks around the house without underwear and [the] children [have] reacted to seeing his genitals.”…