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Attorney Fees in California Family Law Proceedings

• Family Code section 270 - "Ability to Pay Attorney Fees"
• Family Code section 271 - "Attorney Fees as Sanctions for Bad Faith"
• Family Code section 272 - "Prior Court Order for Fees Payable to New Attorney"
• Family Code section 2030 - "Attorney Fees and Disparity in Access to Funds" [Revised 2011]
• Family Code section 2031 - "Temporary Attorney Fees"
• Family Code section 2032 - "Separate Property Attorney Fees" [Revised 2011]
• Family Code section 2033 - "Family Law Attorney's Real Property Lien"
• Family Code section 2034 - "Family Law Attorney's Real Property Lien" [Revised 2011]
• Family Code section 2040 - "Temporary Restraining Order Upon Filing of Dissolution"    
• Family Code section 3121 - "Attorney Fees in Custody Cases" [Revised 2011]
• Family Code section 3557 - "Attorney Fees for Enforcing Support Orders"
• Family Code section 6344 - "Payment of Attorney Fees and Costs in Domestic Violence Cases"
• Family Code section 7605 - "Paternity Actions and Attorney Fees"
• Family Code section 7640 - "Attorney Fees in Paternity Cases"

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California Annulments

• Family 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" 
• Family Code section 2251 - "Putative Spouses and RDP's"

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California Domestic Partnerships and Same-Sex Marriages

• Family Code section 297 - "California Domestic Partnerships"  
• Family Code section 299 - "Termination of Registered Domestic Partnership by Notice"  
• Family Code section 299.2 - "Domestic Partnerships from Other Jurisdictions"
• Family Code section 2400 - "Requirements for Summary Dissolution"  
• Family Code section 308 - "Same Sex Marriages"

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Child Abuse Neglect and Mandated Reporting

• Penal Code section 11165.1 - "Definitions of Child Abuse"
• Penal Code section 11165.2 - "Definition of Child Neglect"
• Penal Code section 1165.4 - "Unlawful Corporal Punishment
• Penal Code section 11165.7 - "Who Are Mandated Reporters?" [Revised 2012]
• Penal Code section 11166 - "Basis for Report and Penalties for Failure to Report"
• Penal Code section 11172 - "Qualified Immunity for Mandated Reporters"

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Child Support Issues

• Family Code section 3103 - "Grandparent Child Support Orders"
• 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"
• Family Code section 4050 - "Statewide Guideline Child Support Formula"
• Family Code section 4052 - "Departures from Guideline CS Formula"
• Family Code section 4053 - "Principles Courts Must Follow in Ordering Guideline CS"
• Family Code section 4055 - "Guideline Child Support Formula"
• Family Code section 4057 - "Court-Ordered Child Support"
• Family Code section 4058 - "Gross Income for Purposes of Child Support"
• Family Code section 4059 - "Net Disposable Income for Purposes of Child Support"
• Family Code section 4062 - "Additional Child Support Orders"
• Family Code section 4063 - "Reimbursing Uninsured Health Care Costs"
• Family Code section 4064 - "Child Support Orders Based Upon Fluctuating Income"
• Family Code section 4066 - "Making Child Support Deductible" 

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Civil and Family Code Discovery In Family Law Cases

• Code of Civil Procedure section 1987 - "Subpoenas to Witnesses"
• Code of Civil Procedure 1987.1 - "Motion to Quash Subpoena"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2025.010 - "Depositions in California"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2025.210- "When May a Deposition Be Taken?"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2025.220 - "Notice to Produce Documents at Deposition"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2025.270 - "Service of Notice of Deposition"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2030.010 - "Interrogatories"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2030.030 - "Family Law Form Interrogatories"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2030.050 - "Declaration for Additional Interrogatories"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2030.060 - "Form of Propounding Special Interrogatories"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2030.210 - "Form of Responding to Special Interrogatories"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2030.260 - "Time for Responding to Interrogatories"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2031.010 - "Demands for Production and Inspection"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2031.030 - "Form and Timing of Production Demands"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2033.010 - "Requests for Admission"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2033.030 - "No More Than 35 Requests Absent Cause"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2033.040 - "Supporting Declaration for More than 35 Requests"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 2033.050 - "Declaration Form for More Than 35 RFA's"
• Family Code section 3662 - "Limitation on Discovery Absent Pending Motion"
• Family Code section 3663 - "Discovery Once Every 12 Months"
• Family Code section 3664 - "Request for Production of Income and Expense (FL-150)"
• Family Code section 3665 - "Producing Tax Returns"
• Family Code section 3667 - "Sanctions for Incomplete Income and Expense Declarations"

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Community and Separate Property Assets and Debts During and After 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 Separation"
• Family Code section 850 - "Transmutations"
• Family Code section 852 - "Formal Requirements of Transmutations"
• Family Code section 853 - "Transmutations Contained in Wills"
• Family Code section 910 - "Liability of Marital Property" 
• Family Code section 911 - "Liability of Earnings for Premarital Debt"
• Family Code section 913 - "Liability of Community Property"
• Family Code section 914 - "Liability for Necessaries of Life"
• 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 2040 - "Orders in Summons" (ATROS) 
• Family Code section 2108 - "Orders to Sell or Liquidate Community Assets During Case" 
• Family Code section 2550 - "Division of Community Estate"  
• Family Code section 2552 - "Date of Valuation of Assets and Liabilities"
• Family Code section 2556 - "Dividing Omitted Assets and Liabilities"
• Family Code section 2581 - "Joint Title Presumptions"
• Family Code section 2601 - "Conditional Award of Community Property"
• Family Code section 2610 - "Dividing Pensions In California" 
• Family Code section 2620 - "Division of Debts Unpaid at Time of Trial" 
• Family Code section 2621 - "Debts Incurred Before Marriage" 
• Family Code section 2622 - "Debts and Liabilities"
• Family Code section 2623 - "Division of Property - Debts and Liabilities" 
• Family Code section 2624 - "Debts Incurred After Judgment" 
• Family Code section 2625 - "Debts Not Incurred for Benefit of the Community"
• Family Code section 2626 - "Reimbursement for Debts Paid After Separation" 
• Family Code section 2627 - "Debts and Liabilities - Student Loans"
• Family Code section 2640 - "Reimbursements for Acquisition of Property"
• Family Code section 2641 - "Reimbursements for Education"
• Probate Code section 5305 - "Ownership of Joint Deposit Accounts"
• Probate Code section 5122 - "Definition of Deposit Account"
• Financial Code section 952 - "Freezing Bank Accounts By Notice of Adverse Claim" [Repealed]
• Financial Code section 1450 - "Freezing Bank Accounts by Adverse Claim" 
• Finacial Code section 1650 - "Blocking Access to Safe Deposit Boxes" [Repealed]
• Financial Code section 1620 - "Freezing Access to Safe Deposit Boxes" 

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Confidentiality, Evidence and Privileges

• Evidence Code section 622 - "Presumption that Facts in Written Instruments are True"
• Evidence Code section 662 - "Presumption From Form of Title"
• Evidence Code section 911 - "Privileges Generally" 
• Evidence Code section 912 - "Waiver of Privileges Generally"
• Evidence Code section 913 - "Effect of Exercise of Privileges"
• Evidence Code section 917 - "Certain Privileges are Presumed"
• Evidence Code section 956.6 - "No Attorney-Client Privilege Involving Acts of Harm"
• Evidence Code section 958 - "Claim of Breach of Duty Against Lawyer Waives Privilege"
• Evidence Code section 970 - "Privilege of Married Persons Not to Testify Against Spouse"
• Evidence Code section 971 - "Privilege Not Testify Against Spouse Absent Consent"
• Evidence Code section 972 - "Limitations on Marital Privilege"
• Evidence Code section 973 - "Spousal Privilege Waiver in Civil Proceedings"
• Evidence Code section 1010 - "Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege"
• Evidence Code section 1119 - "Mediation Privilege"
• Evidence Code section 1121 - "Mediators May Not Submit Reports to the Court"
• Evidence Code section 1122 - "Disclosure Only By Agreement"
• Evidence Code section 1123 - "Written Settlement Agreements Achieved in Mediation"
• Evidence Code section 1125 - "When Mediation Ends"
• Evidence Code section 1126 - "Effect of End of Mediation Process"
• Evidence Code section 1128 - "Irregularity in Mediation Proceeding"
• Family Code section 3552 - "Confidentiality of Tax Returns"

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Custody of Children and Visitation

• 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 3007 - "Sole Physical 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 3024 - "Notice by Parent of Intended Move"
• Family Code section 3027 - "Allegations of Child Abuse" [Revised 2011]
• Family Code section 3040 - "Preference for Custody of Children"
• Family Code section 3041 - "Nonparent Custody"
• Family Code section 3041.5 - "Drug Testing"
• Family Code section 3042 - "Preference of Child"
• Family Code section 3042 - Revised 2011 "Preference of Child and Granting Custody"
• Family Code section 3044 - "Custody and Domestic Violence"
• Family Code section 3062 - "Temporary Custody and Right to Hearing in 20 Days"
• Family Code section 3063 - "Temporary Custody and No Removal From State"
• Family Code section 3064 - "Ex Parte Change of Custody"
• Family Code section 3080 - "Presumption When Parents Agree to Joint Custody"
• Family Code section 3081 - "Court's Power to Order Joint Custody"
• Family Code section 3082 - "Statement of Reasons"
• Family Code section 3083 - "Circumstances Where Joint Consent of Parents Required"
• Family Code section 3101 - "Stepparent and Grandparent Visitation"
• Family Code section 3102 - "Grandparent (and other) Visitation When Parent Has Died" 
• Family Code section 3103 - "Grandparent Visitation Orders" 
• Family Code section 3104 - "Petitions for Grandparent Visitation"  
• Family Code section 3111 - "Child Custody Evaluation Reports"
• Family Code section 3150 - "Appointment of Minor's Counsel"
• Family Code section 3151 - "Role and Powers of Minor's Counsel"
• Family Code section 3183 - "Family Court Custody Mediators" 
• Family Code section 3190 - "Court Ordered Custody Dispute Counseling"
• Family Code section 3192 - "Separate Counseling Where History of DV or Abuse"
• Family Code section 7501 - "Right of Parent to Change Residence of Child"

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Declarations of Disclosure

• Family Code section 2100 - "California Policy on Disclosures"
• Family Code section 2102 - "Duties after Separation"
• Family Code section 2103 - "Requirements of Declaration of Disclosures"
• Family Code section 2104 - "Preliminary Declaration of Disclosure"
• Family Code section 2105 - "Final Declaration of Disclosure"
• Family Code section 2106 - "Entry of Judgment and Disclosures"
• Family Code section 2107 - "Failure to Exchange Final Declarations of Disclosure"
• Family Code section 2110 - "Default Judgments and Declarations of Disclosure"

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Deferred Sale of Family Residence

• Family Code section 3800 - "Deferred Sale of Family Home Order"
• Family Code section 3801 - "Requests for Deferred Sale of Family Residence Orders"
• Family Code section 3802 - "What Should a Court Consider?"

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Dissolution and Other Family Law Related Procedures

• Family Code section 215 - "Service of Postjudgment Motions to Modify Orders"
• Family Code section 217 - "Requirement for Live Testimony in Family Law Proceedings"
• Family Code section 2013 - "Resolving Disputes through Collaborative Process"
• Family Code section 2021 - "Joinder of Parties in Dissolutions"
• Family Code section 2045 - "Ex Parte Restraining Orders"
• Family Code section 2050 - "Notice of Pending Action to Insurance Carriers"
• Family Code section 2122 - "Set Aside of Family Law Judgments"
• Family Code section 2330.3 - "Direct Assignment to Same Judicial Officer" [Revised 2011]
• Family Code section 2337 - "Bifurcation of Marital Status" 
• Family Code section 2450 - "Family Centered Case Resolution Management"
• Family Code section 2451 - "Court Management Plans for High Conflict Dissolutions"
• Family Code section 3664 - "Requests for Updated Income Information"
• Family Code section 3691 - "Set Aside of Support Orders"
• Family Code section 3692 - "When Support May Not Be Set Aside"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 170.3 - "Disqualifying Biased Judges"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6 - "Disqualifying Family Court Judges Without Cause"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 473 - "Relief from Mistake, Inadvertence, Surprise, and Neglect"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 632 - "Statement of Decision"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 639 - "Appointment of Family Law Referees"  
• Code of Civil Procedure section 664.6 - "Enforcing Judgments Reached Out of Court"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 1005 - "Filing and Service of Papers Deadlines"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 1008 - "Motions for Reconsideration"
• Code of Civil Procedure section 1011 - "Serving Attorneys for Other Party"
• California Rules of Court, Rule 3.1203 - "Time for Ex Parte Notice"
• California Rules of Court, Rule 3.1204 - "Declaration Re Ex Parte Notices"
• California Rules of Court, Rule 3.1205 - "Submitting Ex Parte Applications to Clerk"
• California Rules of Court, Rule 3.1206 - "Time for Service of Ex Parte Papers"
• California Rules of Court, Rule 3.1332 - "Grounds for Ex Parte/Motions to Continue"
• California Rules of Court, Rule 5.128 - "Contents of FL-15O Financial Declarations"
• California Rules of Court, Rule 5.150 - "Joinder of Persons Claiming Interest"
• California Rules of Court, Rule 5.154 - "Persons Who May Seek Joinder"

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Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Abuse

• Family Code section 6203 - "Definitions of Abuse"
• Family Code section 6211 - "Victims of Domestic Violence"
• Family Code section 6250 - "Emergency Protective Orders"
• Family Code section 6251 - "Required Showing for Emergency Protective Orders"
• Family Code section 6252.5 - "Protecting Address/Location Information of DV Victims"
• Family Code section 6305 - "Mutual Restraining Orders"
• 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"
• Family Code section 6323 - "Temporary Custody in Domestic Violence"
• Family Code section 6323 - "Ex Parte Custody Order in Domestic Violence" [Revised 2011]
• Family Code section 6340 - "Custody and Support Orders Survive Termination of DV Orders"

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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 - "Liability of Employers for Wage Assignments"

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Expert Witnesses and Evaluations

• Evidence Code section 730 - "Court Appointed Experts"
• Evidence Code section 733 - "Party Experts"

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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 1102 - "Joint Management of Real Estate Community Property" 
• Family Code section 2100 - "Duty of Disclosure of Assets and Liabilities"
• Family Code section 2102 - "Duties after Separation"
• Family Code section 2602 - "Misappropriated Property"

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Military Divorce Statutes and Related Rules and Regulations

• Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act  (USFSPA) 
• 10 U.S. Code section 1408 - "Payment of Community Interest in Military Retirement Per Court Order 

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Paternity Statutes

• Family Code section 7540 - "Children Born During Marriage"
• Family Code section 7541 - "Challenging Paternity of Children Born During Marriage"
• Family Code section 7573 - "Voluntary Declarations of Paternity"
• Family Code section 7575 - "Rescinding Voluntary Declaration of Paternity"
• Family Code section 7577 - "Minor Parents Rescinding VDOP"
• Family Code section 7611 - "Presumptions Regard Parent Child Relationship"
• Family Code section 7612 - "Rebutting Presumptions of Paternity"
• Family Code section 7613 - "Paternity of Children Conceived by Artificial Means"
• Family Code section 7630 - "Who May Bring a Paternity Action"
• Family Code section 7646 - "Time for Setting Aside Paternity Judgments"
• Family Code section 7647 - "Requirements for Motion to Set Aside Paternity"

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Personal Injury Awards in Divorce

• Family Code section 780 - "Personal Injury Awards as Community Property"
• Family Code section 781 - "Personal Injury Awards Generally"
• Family Code section 2603 - "Personal Injury Awards to Injured Spouse"

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Pension and Estate Related Matters

• Family Code section 755 - "Notice to Pension of Adverse Claim or Interest by Spouse"
• Family Code section 2060 - "Joinder of Employee Benefit Plan in California Dissolution"
• Family Code section 2062 - "Service Upon Plan"
• Probate Code section 5601 - "Transfers Upon Death of Joint Tenant to Former Spouse"

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Premarital Agreements

• Family Code section 1612 - "Subject Matter of Premarital Agreements"
• Family Code section 1614 - "Revoking Premarital Agreements"
• Family Code section 1615 - "Unenforceable Premarital Agreements"

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Spousal Support and Alimony

• Family Code section 92 - "Family Support"
• Family Code section 3600 - "Temporary Support"
• Family Code section 4057.5 - "New Mate Income"
• Family Code section 4301 - "Duty to Support Spouse"
• Family Code section 4302 - "Liability When Living Separate By Agreement"  
• Family Code section 4320 - "Long Term Support and Marital Standard of Living"
• Family Code section 4323 - "Cohabitation with Person of Opposite Sex"
• Family Code section 4325 - "Support to Abusive Spouse"
• Family Code section 4330 - "Duty to Become Self-Supporting"
• Family Code section 4331 - "Vocational Training Counselor and Examination"
• Family Code section 4333 - "Retroactivity of Spousal Support Orders"
• Family Code section 4334 - "Contingent Orders for Spousal Support"
• Family Code section 4336 - "Marriages of Long Duration"
• Family Code section 4337 - "Termination of Spousal Support"
• Family Code section 4360 - "Annuities and Life Insurance to Guarantee Spousal Support"
  

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