Useful California Family Law Statutes

Below You Will Find Helpful Family Law Statutes

for Selected Legal Issues 

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Attorney Fees in California

• Family Code section 271 - "Attorney Fees as Sanctions for Bad Faith"

• Family Code section 2030 - "Attorney Fees and Costs"

• Family Code section 2031 - "Temporary Attorney Fees"

• Family Code section 2032 - "Just and Reasonable Attorney Fees"

• Family Code section 2033 - "Family Law Attorney's Real Property Lien"

• Family Code section 2040 - "Temporary Restraining Order Upon Filing of Dissolution"

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Custody of Children

• Family Code section 3002 - "Joint Custody"

• Family Code section 3003 - "Joint Legal Custody"

• Family Code section 3004 - "Joint Physical Custody"

• Family Code section 3006 - "Sole Legal Custody"

• Family Code section 3010 - "Parents Equally Entitled to Custody"

• Family Code section 3011 - "Best Interests of Children"

• Family Code section 3020 - "Frequent and Continuing Contact with Children"

• Family Code section 3022.3 - "Statement of Reasons for Court's Decision"

• Family Code section 3040 - "Preference for Custody of Children"

• Family Code section 3041 - "Nonparent Custody"

• Family Code section 3044 - "Custody and Domestic Violence"

• Family Code section 3080 - "Presumption of Best Interest When Parents Agree to Joint Custody"

• Family Code section 3081 - "Court's Power to Order Joint Custody"

• Family Code section 3082 - "Statement of Reasons"

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Enforcing Support Orders and Judgments in California

• Family Code section 155 - "Definition of Support Orders and When Interest Begins"

• Family Code section 290 - "Ways to Enforce Support Judgments and Orders"

• Family Code section 291 - "Enforcing Support Orders and Exemption from Renewal"

• Family Code section 4560 - "Child Support Security Deposit"

• Family Code section 4722 - "Child Support Interest Penalties"

• Family Code section 5230 - "Earnings Assignment Orders"

• Family Code section 5241 - "Liablity of Employers for Wage Assignments"

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California Annulments

• F amily Code section 2200 - "Void Marriages"

• Family Code section 2201 - "Annulment Prior Existing Marriage"

• Family Code section 2210 - "Grounds for Annulment in California"

• Family Code section 2211 - "Time for Filing for Annulment" 

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Divorce Procedures

• Family Code section 2337 - "Bifurcation of Marital Status"
  

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Fiduciary Duties Between Spouses

• Family Code section 721 - "Duties Between Spouses"

• Family Code section 1100 - "Management and Control of Property"

• Family Code section 1101 - "Breach of Fiduciary Duty"

• Family Code section 2100 - "Duty of Disclosure of Assets and Liabilities"

• Family Code section 2102 - "Duties after Separation"

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Declarations of Disclosure

• Family Code section 2100 - "California Policy on Disclosure"

• Family Code section 2102 - "Duties after Separation"

• Family Code section 2103 - "Requirements of Declaration of Disclosure"

• Family Code section 2104 - "Preliminary Declaration of Disclosure"

• Family Code section 2105 - "Final Declaration of Disclosure"

• F amily Code section 2106 - "Entry of Judgment and Disclosures"

• Family Code section 2107 - "Noncomplying Declarations of Disclosure"

• Family Code section 2110 - "Default Judgments and Declarations of Disclosure"

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Division of Personal Injury Awards in Divorce

• Family Code section 780 - "Personal Injury Awards as Community Property"

• Family Code section 781 - "PI Awards"

• Family Code section 2603 - "Personal Injury Awards to Injured Spouse"

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Community Property and Debts During Marriage

• Family Code section 752- "No Interest in the Other's Separate Property"

• Family Code section 760 - "Definition of Community Property"

• Family Code section 770 - "Definition of Separate Property"

• Family Code section 771 - "Earnings and Accumulations During Marriage"

• Family Code section 910 - "Liability of Marital Property"

• Family Code section 911 - "Liability of Marital Property"

• Family Code section 913 - "Liability of Community Property"

• Family Code section 915 - "General Rules of Liability"

• Family Code section 916 - "Liability of Marital Property"

• Family Code section 920 - "Reimbursements"

• Family Code section 1000 - "Liability for Death for Injury"

• Family Code section 2550 - "Division of Community Estate" 

• Family Code section 2601 - "Conditional Award of Community Property"

• Family Code section 2622 - "Debts and Liablities"

• Family Code section 2627 - "Debts and Liabilities"

• Family Code section 2623 - "Division of Property - Debts and Liabilities"

• Family Code section 2640 - "Reimbursements for Acquisition of Property"

• Family Code section 2641 - "Reimbursements for Education"

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Spousal Support and Alimony

• Family Code section 3600 - "Temporary Support"

• Family Code section 4301 - "Duty to Support Spouse"

• Family Code section 4320 - "Long Term Support and Marital Standard of Living"

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Child Support

• Family Code section 3900 - "Equal Duty of Parents to Support Child"

• Family Code section 3901 - "Duty of Parents to Support Child"

• Family Code section 3910 - "Duty of Both Parents to Support Child"

• Family Code section 4009 - "Retroactive Child Support"

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California Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Abuse

• Family Code section 6203 - "Definitions of Abuse"

• Family Code section 6211 - "Victims of Domestic Violence"

• Family Code section 6320 - "Domestic Violence Retraining Orders"

• Family Code section 6320.5 - "DV Hearings and Service of Papers"

• Family Code section 6321 - "Residence Exclusion Orders"

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California Domestic Partnerships

• Family Code section 297 - "California Domestic Partnerships" 

• Family Code section 299 - "Termination of Registered Domestic Partnership by Notice" 

• Family Code section 2400 - "Requirements for Summary Dissolution"   

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Premarital and Prenuptial Agreements

• Family Code section 1612 - "Subject Matter of Premarital Agreements"

• Family Code section 1615 - "Unenforceable Premarital Agreements"

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