CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Venue
.........Inconvenient Forum
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Statute authorizing forum non conveniens petition.

Before determining whether it is an inconvenient forum, court must consider whether domestic violence has occurred and which state can best protect the parties and the child.

Forum non conveniens explained.

Referral of relinquishment to Texas court improper on grounds of forum non conveniens where only one FC 3427 (b) factor weighed in favor of California ceding jurisdiction.

Because Petitioner is a “party” to dissolution action, she has a statutory right to bring a forum non conveniens motion, and motion not barred by waiver or judicial estoppel.

Trial court should have stayed dissolution action for forum non conveniens until English courts had an opportunity to act.

A court may dismiss an action based upon forum non conveniens without first determining its own personal and subject matter jurisdiction.