CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure After Trial/Hearing
......Appeal
.........Forfeiture of Argument
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Appellate court cannot become appellant's lawyer; failure to show legal error compels affirmance of judgment.

Points raised for the first time in an appellate reply brief will generally not be considered on appeal.

Defendants forfeited evidentiary errors on appeal where they did not cite the record or legal authority.

A party who has litigated and lost an issue at trial is not required to reassert an objection to the merits of the trial ct.'s decision by way of an objection to a PSOD in order to preserve the objection for appeal.

Appellants forfeited arguments that trial ct. improperly excluded lay and expert testimony where they presented no legal analysis or citation to legal authority.