CALIFORNIA CODES
CALIFORNIA FAMILY CODE
Division 6. NULLITY, DISSOLUTION, AND LEGAL SEPARATION
Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 9. DISCLOSURE OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
Current through 2010
§ 2105.
(a) Except by court order for good cause, before or at the
time the parties enter into an agreement for the resolution of
property or
support issues other than pendente lite support, or, if the case
goes to trial,
no later than 45 days before the first assigned trial date, each
party, or the
attorney for the party in this matter, shall serve on the other
party a final
declaration of disclosure and a current income and expense
declaration,
executed under penalty of perjury on a form prescribed by the
Judicial Council,
unless the parties mutually waive the final declaration of
disclosure. The
commission of perjury on the final declaration of disclosure by a
party may be
grounds for setting aside the judgment, or any part or parts
thereof, pursuant
to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 2120), in addition to any
and all other
remedies, civil or criminal, that otherwise are available under
law for the
commission of perjury.
(b) The final declaration of disclosure shall include all
of the following information:
(1) All material facts and information regarding the
characterization of all assets and liabilities.
(2) All material facts and information regarding the
valuation of all assets that are contended to be community
property or in which
it is contended the community has an interest.
(3) All material facts and information regarding the
amounts of all obligations that are contended to be community
obligations or
for which it is contended the community has liability.
(4) All material facts and information regarding the
earnings, accumulations, and expenses of each party that have been
set forth in
the income and expense declaration.
(c) In making an order setting aside a judgment for failure
to comply with this section, the court may limit the set aside to
those
portions of the judgment materially affected by the nondisclosure.
(d) The parties may stipulate to a mutual waiver of the
requirements of subdivision (a) concerning the final declaration
of disclosure,
by execution of a waiver under penalty of perjury entered into in
open court or
by separate stipulation. The waiver shall include all of the
following
representations:
(1) Both parties have complied with Section 2104 and the
preliminary declarations of disclosure have been completed and
exchanged.
(2) Both parties have completed and exchanged a current
income and expense declaration, that includes all material facts
and
information regarding that party's earnings, accumulations, and
expenses.
(3) Both parties have fully complied with Section 2102 and
have fully augmented the preliminary declarations of disclosure,
including
disclosure of all material facts and information regarding the
characterization
of all assets and liabilities, the valuation of all assets that
are contended
to be community property or in which it is contended the community
has an
interest, and the amounts of all obligations that are contended to
be community
obligations or for which it is contended the community has
liability.
(4) The waiver is knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily
entered into by each of the parties.
(5) Each party understands that this waiver does not limit
the legal disclosure obligations of the parties, but rather is a
statement
under penalty of perjury that those obligations have been
fulfilled. Each party
further understands that noncompliance with those obligations will
result in
the court setting aside the judgment.
History. Amended by
Stats
2001 ch 703
(AB 583),
s
4, eff.
1/1/2002.