California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Brown v. Brown, D060142, Super. Ct. No. D508947 (Cal. App. 2013):
burden to establish an abuse of discretion has occurred. (Cf. Blank v. Kirwan (1985) 39 Cal.3d 311, 318.) " '[T]he showing on appeal is wholly insufficient if it presents a state of facts . . . which . . . merely affords an opportunity for a difference of opinion. An appellate tribunal is neither authorized nor warranted in substituting its judgment for the judgment of the trial judge.' " (In re Marriage of Varner (1997) 55 Cal.App.4th 128, 138.)
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