R.C. v. P.C. CA4/3
In June 2016 we considered the issue of whether the family law court abused its discretion by denying R.C.’s (Father) petition for legal and physical custody of his son Michael C. (Michael). (R.C. v. P.C. (June 28, 2016, G051519) [nonpub. opn.] (R.C.).) In that appeal, Father complained the family law court ignored the fact his due process rights were violated when the court in 2013 gave Michael’s maternal grandmother, P.C. (Grandmother), sole legal and physical custody of the child as part of a domestic violence restraining order to keep Michael’s drug addicted mother, H.C. (Mother), safely away from them. (Ibid.) Father maintained it was unfair to be excluded from the proceedings that effectively terminated his parental rights. We concluded he was right because the court lacked jurisdiction to adjudicate custody in favor of a non-parent in the context of a domestic violence restraining order. (Ibid.) We also expressed dismay the Orange County Department of Social Service
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