CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Jurisdiction: Priority of
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After a F/L court acquires jurisdiction to divide c/p in a dissolution action, no other department may make an order adversely affecting that division.

Joinder and stay orders of family court, which had priority of jurisdiction, barred other court from proceeding further with SJ on related foreclosure issue.

Cases discussing priority of jurisdiction.

Juvenile court priority in custody matters.