CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
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Procedure After Trial/Hearing
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Attack on Judgments/Orders
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Void Judgments/Orders/Defaults
............In Excess of Court's Jurisdiction
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Appeal of order denying mother's motion to vacate stipulated support judgment proper where mother did not agree to settlement and judgment void.
Court has jurisdiction to decide issues parties submit by stipulation.
Stipulated order of trial court to terminate custody rights is void and may be vacated.
Once preliminary facts necessary to exercise of jurisdiction established, party may not collaterally attack judgment later by challenging those facts.
Cases dealing with void orders.