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Laws current as of November 7, 2024 If the other parent or I get ex parte temporary custody, can either of us leave the state with our child?
Whenever a judge grants an ex parte order for temporary custody, s/he also enters an order that says that whoever is getting custody cannot take the child out of the state before the hearing that will establish final custody.1
1 Ann.Cal.Fam.Code § 3063
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