The Fourth District holds that an unqualified Welfare and Institutions Code section 782 dismissal encompasses the underlying findings, satisfying section 786(d)’s "dismissed" condition for sealing serious juvenile offense records — but the firearm restriction survives.
Fourth District holds that a voluntary declaration of parentage is void where the birth mother had attempted to marry another man in apparent compliance with the law, making him a presumed parent under Family Code section 7611(b).
Fourth District reverses Family Code section 271 sanctions for refusing to convert legal separation into dissolution and reverses a mutual DVRO that lacked substantial evidence of the wife as primary aggressor.
Fourth District affirms a pet custody order but imposes $5,000 in sanctions on counsel for repeatedly citing AI-generated fake cases and reports the conduct to the State Bar of California.