Legal Question in Family Law in California

You can call the police to assist you, show up at her home, order in hand, and demand your son back. Here is the issue I have ran into on several occasions: If the child refuses to go, the cops will not make him. Then you will likely have to obtain an attorney (don't do this yourself) and file contempt charges to force the issue. If she has not seen him in three years, and this is how she responds on the first visitation, I would request supervised visitation only, and in your area.

If no one was supposed to take him out of the local counties, how did he wind up in San Diego? You are going to have a tough time enforcing an order that you yourself seem to have violated. Not that there's a problem with violating it in favor of supporting your son's relationship with his mother, its just the selective enforcement that the police are not going to want to get into. So you are going to have to deal with this in court. With that said, though, he needs to be back with you to start school, and even if the court has issues with you wanting to selectively enforce the order, I am pretty sure any Family Law judge will order him returned to you for school. Given that school must be starting soon, you need to get an ex-parte contempt motion on file immediately.