Questions and answers

His mother, Carli Heller. The Findings and Order After Hearing of February 11, 2026 (Mendocino County Superior Court No. 25FL01030), made after a contested hearing, gives her sole physical custody and permission to live in Florida. It was registered in Lee County, Florida on September 22, 2026 and became final there October 16 with no contest. It is the only custody order made after notice and a hearing in either state.

On August 12, 2026, without notice to the mother (“NOTICE NOT GIVEN,” per the register), the court issued a temporary order that states on its face that it expires at the September 2, 2026 hearing “unless extended by court order.” The September 2 minutes record no extension. On October 15, 2026 the court signed, without a hearing, an order prepared by Vincent Hyler’s lawyer declaring that an extension had been made on September 15 that “was not reflected in the minute order.” The documents are on the Documents page.

According to the verified complaint (¶ 75), at the Redwood Valley home of Judith and Michael Hyler, with Vincent Hyler, since August 19, 2026. No independent person has seen him and reported to his mother since that date.

There is no federal agency that returns a child taken across state lines in a domestic case. The uniform act every state adopted gives a parent a list of things to ask for — registration, a hearing the next judicial day, a warrant, a prosecutor’s help — and every one runs through an official who may decline. Every office in two states was asked in writing. Each declined, with a date. The letters are on Every office.

Because the verified complaint alleges, paragraph by paragraph, what they knew before the child was taken and that they have kept him since (¶¶ 66–76), and because California law lets a victim of domestic violence sue a person who aids and abets it. The shadow grandma.

Courts in both states made domestic-violence findings against Vincent Hyler (Mendocino, March 2025; Lee County, Florida, June and July 2026). He was recorded on March 15, 2025 saying “All I have to do is call the cops and you are gone … I’ve done my homework,” and filed for custody two days later. He said it on tape.

A March 2025 restraining order listed his firearms as “shot gun and other guns at mother’s house.” His April 15, 2025 surrender receipt lists two rifles and no shotgun. In August 2026 he swore, in the application used to take the child, that he had surrendered “the firearm referenced in the 2025 directive,” and attached the receipt that contradicts him. The shotgun has never been accounted for. He is on probation. The gun.

J.J. was made sick before he was born by the man who now holds him: his mother has stated under penalty of perjury how, in the declaration prepared for the May 26, 2026 hearing. His sensory processing disorder and retained primitive reflexes are what a nervous system looks like when it was under chronic stress before birth; a developmental specialist’s June 2026 report documents the diagnoses. He did it, and everyone who could have stopped it let him. J.J. had occupational therapy and early intervention three times a week in Lee County. It stopped the day he was taken.

Enforcement of the custody order from the Mendocino County Superior Court (petition docketed September 28, 2026, never heard); a missing-child entry from the Lee County Sheriff; prosecution from the Florida State Attorney and the Mendocino County District Attorney; a welfare check from the Mendocino County Sheriff; review from the California Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal; and action from the California Attorney General, the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the ATF, and Mendocino County Probation. Every request is in writing and on this site.

Her son home. The lawsuits are on file (Mendocino No. 26CV04599, and the second complaint submitted November 8, 2026); sworn answers in the first are due November 25, 2026.

Because every office that declined did so on the strength of a paper with an expiration date printed on it, and because the record of their answers is the only thing a mother without police behind her order can build. Every claim on this site is tied to a document you can open.

The February 11, 2026 custody order with its Florida registration; the August 12, 2026 order with its expiration line; the warrant page with “Proposed” in the footer. Then Press.

If you have seen J.J. since August 19, 2026, or know who has been caring for him, write — anonymously if you prefer. Share the documents. Nothing on this site asks anyone to contact the family.