California · Evidence Code

EVID §1315: Evidence of a statement concerning a person’s birth, marriage, divorce, death, parent and child relationship, race, ancestry, relationship by blood or marriage, or other similar fact of family history

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This statute addresses evidence regarding family history facts such as birth, marriage, divorce, death, and family relationships. It establishes rules for how such evidence may be presented or used.

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Evidence of a statement concerning a person’s birth, marriage, divorce, death, parent and child relationship, race, ancestry, relationship by blood or marriage, or other similar fact of family history which is contained in a writing made as a record of a church, religious denomination, or religious society is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if: (a) The statement is contained in a writing made as a record of an act, condition, or event that would be admissible as evidence of such act, condition, or event under Section 1271; and (b) The statement is of a kind customarily recorded in connection with the act, condition, or event recorded in the writing.

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