CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Judicial Officers/Referees/Masters
.........Commissioner/Judge Pro Tem
............In Contempt
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Commissioner does not have authority to determine contempt, unless s/he does so on parties' stipulation that s/he hears matter as judge pro tem.

Stipulation that commissioner may hear dissolution as judge pro tem. does not authorize him/her to hear indirect contempt which arises from dissolution orders.

Stipulation that commissioner sit as judge pro tem. on criminal matter does not extend to adjudication of direct contempt which is heard after completion of criminal trial.