Legal Question in Family Law in California

Oddly enough, "illegal" is a term that does not have any real legal meaning. All it really means, sort of, is that something has a negative legal consequence IF it is made the subject of legal proceedings. Something being "illegal" doesn't mean it is a crime, which is all the police are authorized to deal with. It is "illegal" to breach a contract, but it is not a crime and there is nothing the PD can do about someone breaching a contract. If something is "illegal" but not a crime, it is up to the person who is wronged by the illegal conduct to file civil legal proceedings based on the wrongful conduct. Emotional abuse and spousal abandonment are not crimes. So if you are the victim of emotional abuse and/or spousal abandonment, you have to file your own legal proceedings to deal with it. It is not the police departments' business.