The relevant factual and procedural context of the appeal before us may reasonably be condensed to the following.
The above-named defendant Marlene Vernon (formerly Marlene Downey) is the mother, and one Joel Downey the father, of two minor children. In the parents' State of California marriage dissolution proceedings of 1971, the father was awarded custody of the children and ordered to provide for their...
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