Jonathan Merche v. Lorraine Bianca Limonta

1 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA 2 COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO 3 UNIFIED FAMILY COURT 4

6) JONATHAN MERCHE,) Case Number: FDV-24-817957 7) Petitioner) Hearing Date: April 14, 2026 8) VS.) Hearing Time: 9:00 AM 9) LORRAINE BIANCA LIMONTA,) Department: 404 10) Respondent) Presiding: AI MORI 11)) 12 OTHER REVIEW HEARING 13

14 Having read and considered the pleadings, declarations, and other evidence submitted in this matter, the 15 Court makes the following findings and orders: 16 A. Procedural History 17 1) Petitioner Jonathan Merche (Father) and Respondent Lorraine Bianca Limonta (Mother) have two 18 children together, Prince, age 5, and King, age 4. Father lives in Daly City; Mother lives in 19 Stockton. 20 2) On 8/19/2025, the parties agreed, and the Court ordered, that the children will live with Father 21 and have Zoom calls with Mother on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 3pm, with Mother 22 initiating the calls.

The Court ordered that if Mother can take BART into San Francisco on a 23 Saturday or Sunday once a month, she will let Father know and he will arrange for Mother to 24 meet with the children at a park or other location near the BART station. The Court ordered that 25 Mother will have parenting time in Stockton for Thanksgiving week, the second week of 26 Christmas break, and spring break. The Court set a review hearing for 4/14/2026. 27 3) On 4/8/2026, Father filed an update declaration in which he states that both boys are in therapy 28 and have "greatly been improving in all ways" and are doing well.

He states that Mother "has not 29

1 done anything that we came into agreement with." He states she has not made a single Zoom call, 2 has not asked about the children, and did not message the children on their birthdays. He states 3 Mother saw them for "a few hours" on March 28. 4 4) Mother did not file an update declaration. 5 B. Findings and Orders 6 1) This Court has jurisdiction to make child custody orders in this case under the Uniform Child 7 Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act. A violation of this order may subject the party in 8 violation to civil or criminal penalties, or both.

The country of habitual residence of the minor 9 children is the United States. 10 2) The Court finds it is in the minor children's best interest to maintain the current order for sole 11 legal and sole physical custody to Father. In light of Father's update that Mother has not reached 12 out to the children and has not seen them, the Court vacates the prior order for Mother to have 13 parenting time in Stockton for Thanksgiving week, the second week of Christmas, and spring 14 break. 15 3) Mother may still have phone calls or Zoom or FaceTime calls with the children on Mondays, 16 Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 3pm.