CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Custody and Visitation
......Factors Considered in Cust./Visit. Award
.........Past Acts/Crime
............Past Actions or Crime
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Person convicted of child molestation and required to register as sex offender may not receive custody or unsupervised visitation absent finding of no significant risk to child.

To determine risk of abduction, court considers past actions, crimes, criminal record.

Unfounded accusations and unreliable and incredible testimony by W, support custody decision in favor of H even in absence of evidence that child has been affected by such conduct.

Statutory rape which caused conception of minor does not defeat father's request for visitation.

Murder of W by H does not necessarily render him an unfit parent.

Allegations of improper past acts by H, which occurred more than 2 years before hearing and were not factually sustained, held irrelevant.

Child may be declared free of parental care and control if parent convicted of a crime, the facts of which are of such a nature so as to prove the parent’s unfitness.

Where F's fitness questioned by factors other than facts underlying felony conviction, court to apply other statutory provisions with more gradual termination procedures and safeguards than exist in FC 7825.

Prior acts of domestic violence may be considered in custody matters.