My question involves a child custody case from the State of: California
My spouse and I are living together. She is an immigrant from an overseas country and has had US citizenship for around 3 years. We have a 2 year old child. The child has a passport. My spouse desires to take our child to her homeland and I am not sure she will bring him back. She is in possession of his passport and is unwilling to give it back to me (this to me is a red flag).
Do I need a court order to prevent her from taking our child out of the country?
Would such a court order encompass her being required to relinquish the passport to me?
Can she legally keep our child's passport from me? If I seize his passport from her and refuse to return it, would she have a legal right to reclaim it?
If anyone can offer any other advice, I would appreciate it.

