T.R. v. A.J. CA2/4

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FOUR

T.R., B247965

Petitioner and Respondent, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. PF003745)

v.

A.J.,

Respondent,

T.J.,

Claimant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, B. Scott Silverman, Judge. Affirmed. T.J., in pro. per., for Claimant and Appellant. T.R., in pro. per.; and Michele Lyn Gibson for Petitioner and Respondent.

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Maternal grandmother, T.J., appeals from an order denying her petition seeking visitation with her grandson. The record supports the trial court’s exercise of discretion; we affirm the order. 1 FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SUMMARY Conner, the child at the center of this long-running dispute, was born in 2007. His father (T.R.) and mother (A.J.) were teenagers when he was born. They all lived with the maternal grandmother and her boyfriend for the first few months of the child’s life; father moved out when his relationship with mother soured, but mother and the child stayed. Grandmother and her boyfriend assumed much of the responsibility for the child’s care. Father brought a parentage action in 2008, seeking a declaration of paternity, legal custody and visitation. The relationship between mother and father had grown more and more antagonistic, as had the parents’ relationships with the grandmother and her boyfriend. Competing requests for custody, visitation, and restraining orders were filed in the parentage action. In June 2009, the parents were awarded joint physical and legal custody of Conner; the court also restrained the parents from allowing the child to have contact with several people, including grandmother and her boyfriend. Mother entered into a relationship with another man and had two more children. In December 2011, father petitioned for a modification of child custody and visitation. The parents were awarded joint legal custody, and father was awarded primary physical custody, with visitation for mother. The court ordered that Conner was not to be left alone in the presence of grandmother and her boyfriend, without supervision by mother. Mother appealed from this order, but later dismissed that appeal. In November 2012, grandmother noticed bruises on mother’s two younger children. She made a report to Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), and