In County of Yolo v. Worrell (1989) 208 Cal. App. 3d 471, a father challenged a county's authority to establish child support on the grounds that it had no right to initiate an independent proceeding while a family law matter was pending and argued that the county should have intervened in that family law proceeding. The court disagreed: "Father's argument, however, completely ignores our earlier decision in County of El Dorado v. Spence (1986) 182 Cal. App. 3d 698, 227 Cal. Rptr. 365 . . . . In County of El Dorado, we concluded that the pendency of a family law action did not deprive a county of standing to pursue a support order in an independent action. " ( County of Yolo v. Worrell, supra, 208 Cal. App. 3d at p. 475.)