California

Family Code

1,650 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 1 — This code shall be known as the Family Code.
• § 10 — The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
• § 100 — “Judgment” and “order” include a decree, as appropriate under the circumstances.
• § 1000 — (a) A married person is not liable for any injury or damage caused by the other spouse except in cases where the married person would be liable therefor if the marriage did not exist.
• § 10000 — This division shall be known and may be cited as the Family Law Facilitator Act.
• § 10001 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Child and spousal support are serious legal obligations.
• § 10002 — Each superior court shall maintain an office of the family law facilitator.
• § 10003 — This division shall apply to all actions or proceedings for temporary or permanent child support, spousal support, health insurance, child custody, or visitation in a proceeding for dissolution of mar
• § 10004 — Services provided by the family law facilitator shall include, but are not limited to, the following: providing educational materials to parents concerning the process of establishing parentage and es
• § 10005 — (a) By local rule, the superior court may designate additional duties of the family law facilitator, which may include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Meeting with litigants to mediate iss
• § 10006 — The court shall adopt a protocol wherein all litigants, both unrepresented by counsel and represented by counsel, have ultimate access to a hearing before the court.
• § 10007 — The court shall provide the family law facilitator at no cost to the parties.
• § 10008 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), nothing in this chapter shall be construed to apply to a child for whom services are provided or required to be provided by a local child support agency purs
• § 10010 — The Judicial Council shall adopt minimum standards for the office of the family law facilitator and any forms or rules of court that are necessary to implement this division.
• § 10011 — The Director of the State Department of Social Services shall seek approval from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Child Support Enforcement, to utilize funding unde
• § 10012 — (a) In a proceeding in which mediation is required pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 10005, where there has been a history of domestic violence between the parties or where a pro
• § 10013 — The family law facilitator shall not represent any party.
• § 10014 — A person employed by, or directly supervised by, the family law facilitator shall not make any public comment about a pending or impending proceeding in the court as provided by paragraph (9) of subdi
• § 10015 — The Judicial Council shall create any necessary forms to advise the parties of the types of services provided, that there is no attorney-client relationship, that the family law facilitator is not res
• § 105 — “Person” includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity.
• § 11 — A reference to “husband” and “wife,” “spouses,” or “married persons,” or a comparable term, includes persons who are lawfully married to each other and persons who were previously lawfully married to
• § 110 — “Proceeding” includes an action.
• § 1100 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) and Sections 761 and 1103, either spouse has the management and control of the community personal property, whether acquired prior to or on or
• § 1101 — (a) A spouse has a claim against the other spouse for any breach of the fiduciary duty that results in impairment to the claimant spouse’s present undivided one-half interest in the community estate,
• § 1102 — (a) Except as provided in Sections 761 and 1103, either spouse has the management and control of the community real property, whether acquired prior to, or on or after January 1, 1975, but both spouse
• § 1103 — (a) Where one or both of the spouses either has a conservator of the estate or lacks legal capacity to manage and control community property, the procedure for management and control (which includes d
• § 113 — “Property” includes real and personal property and any interest therein.
• § 115 — “Property declaration” means the form for a property declaration in family law matters adopted by the Judicial Council.
• § 12 — “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.
• § 125 — “Quasi-community property” means all real or personal property, wherever situated, acquired before or after the operative date of this code in any of the following ways: (a) By either spouse while dom
• § 126 — “Petitioner” includes plaintiff, where appropriate.
• § 127 — “Respondent” includes defendant, where appropriate.
• § 13 — If a provision or clause of this code or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the code which can be given
• § 130 — “Separate property” is property that is separate property under Part 2 (commencing with Section 760) of Division 4.
• § 142 — “Spousal support” means support of the spouse of the obligor.
• § 143 — “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.
• § 145 — “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, or a commonwealth, territory, or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
• § 150 — “Support” refers to a support obligation owing on behalf of a child, spouse, or family, or an amount owing pursuant to Section 17402.
• § 1500 — The property rights of spouses prescribed by statute may be altered by a premarital agreement or other marital property agreement.
• § 1501 — A minor may make a valid premarital agreement or other marital property agreement if the minor is emancipated, is otherwise capable of contracting marriage pursuant to Section 302 or 303, or has enter
• § 1502 — (a) A premarital agreement or other marital property agreement that is executed and acknowledged or proved in the manner that a grant of real property is required to be executed and acknowledged or pr
• § 1503 — Nothing in this chapter affects the validity or effect of premarital agreements made before January 1, 1986, and the validity and effect of those agreements shall continue to be determined by the law
• § 155 — “Support order” means a judgment or order of support in favor of an obligee, whether temporary or final, or subject to modification, termination, or remission, regardless of the kind of action or proc
• § 1600 — This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act.
• § 1601 — This chapter is effective on and after January 1, 1986, and applies to any premarital agreement executed on or after that date.
• § 1610 — As used in this chapter: (a) “Premarital agreement” means an agreement between prospective spouses made in contemplation of marriage and to be effective upon marriage.
• § 1611 — A premarital agreement shall be in writing and signed by both parties.
• § 1612 — (a) Parties to a premarital agreement may contract with respect to all of the following: (1) The rights and obligations of each of the parties in any of the property of either or both of them whenever
• § 1613 — A premarital agreement becomes effective upon marriage.
• § 1614 — After marriage, a premarital agreement may be amended or revoked only by a written agreement signed by the parties.
• § 1615 — (a) A premarital agreement is not enforceable if the party against whom enforcement is sought proves either of the following: (1) That party did not execute the agreement voluntarily.
• § 1616 — If a marriage is determined to be void, an agreement that would otherwise have been a premarital agreement is enforceable only to the extent necessary to avoid an inequitable result.
• § 1617 — Any statute of limitations applicable to an action asserting a claim for relief under a premarital agreement is tolled during the marriage of the parties to the agreement.
• § 1620 — Except as otherwise provided by law, spouses cannot, by a contract with each other, alter their legal relations, except as to property.
• § 170 — (a) As used in this code, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms “Indian,” “Indian child,” “Indian child’s tribe,” “Indian custodian,” “Indian organization,” “Indian tribe,” “reservation,” a
• § 17000 — The definitions contained in this section, and definitions applicable to Division 9 (commencing with Section 3500), shall govern the construction of this division, unless the context requires otherwis
• § 17200 — The Department of Child Support Services is hereby created within the California Health and Human Services Agency.
• § 17202 — (a) The department is hereby designated the single organizational unit whose duty it shall be to administer the Title IV-D state plan for securing child and spousal support, medical support, and deter
• § 17204 — The department consists of the director and such division or other administrative units as the director may find necessary.
• § 17206 — The department shall ensure that there is an adequate organizational structure and sufficient staff to perform functions delegated to any governmental unit relating to Part D (commencing with Section
• § 17208 — (a) The department shall reduce the cost of, and increase the speed and efficiency of, child support enforcement operations.
• § 17210 — The department shall ensure that the local child support agency offices and services are reasonably accessible throughout the counties, and shall establish systems for informing the public, including
• § 17211 — The department shall administer the Child Support Assurance Demonstration Project established by Article 5 (commencing with Section 18241) of Chapter 3.
• § 17212 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to protect individual rights of privacy, and to facilitate and enhance the effectiveness of the child and spousal support enforcement program, by ensuring the c
• § 17300 — (a) With the consent of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint, to serve at the Governor’s pleasure, an executive officer who shall be director of the department.
• § 17302 — The director shall do all of the following: (a) Be responsible for the management of the department.
• § 17303 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act, contained in Part D (commencing with Section 651) of Subchapter 4 of Chapter 7 of Title 42 o
• § 17304 — To address the concerns stated by the Legislature in Section 17303, each county shall establish a new county department of child support services.
• § 17305 — (a) In order to achieve an orderly and timely transition to the new system with minimal disruption of services, the director shall begin the transition from the office of the district attorney to the
• § 17306 — (a) The Department of Child Support Services shall develop uniform forms, policies, and procedures to be employed statewide by all local child support agencies.
• § 17306.1 — (a) Commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year, the department shall implement a revised local child support agency funding methodology that was developed in consultation with the California Child Suppor
• § 17307 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the Department of Child Support Services has the authority and discretion to prevent, correct, or remedy the effects of changes in the timing of the
• § 17308 — The director shall assume responsibility for implementing and managing all aspects of a single statewide automated child support system that will comply with state and federal requirements.
• § 17309 — Effective October 1, 1998, the state shall operate a State Disbursement Unit as required by federal law (42 U.
• § 17309.5 — (a) An employer who is required to withhold and, by electronic fund transfer, pay tax pursuant to Section 19011 of the Revenue and Taxation Code or Section 13021 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, sh
• § 17310 — (a) The director shall formulate, adopt, amend, or repeal regulations and general policies affecting the purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the department that are consistent with law and
• § 17311 — (a) The Child Support Payment Trust Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury.
• § 17311.5 — (a) The department may enter into a trust agreement with a trustee or fiscal intermediary to receive or disburse child support collections.
• § 17311.7 — (a) Any payment required to be made to a family through the State Disbursement Unit shall be made directly to the obligee parent in the child support order requiring the payment, the conservator or gu
• § 17312 — (a) The department shall adopt regulations, orders, or standards of general application to implement, interpret, or make specific the law enforced by the department.
• § 17314 — (a) Subject to the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code), the director shall appoint any assistants and other employees that
• § 17316 — No person, while holding the office of director, shall be a trustee, manager, director, or other officer or employee of any agency performing any function supervised by the department or any instituti
• § 17318 — Except as otherwise expressly provided, Part 1 (commencing with Section 11000) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, as it may be added to or amended from time to time, shall apply to the c
• § 17320 — The department shall coordinate with the State Department of Social Services to avoid the imposition of any federal penalties that cause a reduction in the state’s Temporary Assistance to Needy Famili
• § 17325 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, if child support payments are directly deposited to an account of the recipient’s choice, as authorized under the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) (15
• § 17390 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is no single statewide database containing statistical data regarding child support orders.
• § 17391 — (a) The department shall develop an implementation plan for the Statewide Child Support Registry.
• § 17392 — (a) The Judicial Council shall develop any forms that may be necessary to implement the Statewide Child Support Registry.
• § 17393 — The Judicial Council shall develop the forms necessary to implement this article.
• § 17400 — (a) (1) Each county shall maintain a local child support agency, as specified in Section 17304, that shall have the responsibility for promptly and effectively establishing, modifying, and enforcing c
• § 17400.5 — If an obligor has an ongoing child support order being enforced by a local child support agency pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act and the obligor is disabled, meets the SSI resource te
• § 17401 — If the parent who is receiving support enforcement services provides to the local child support agency substantial, credible, information regarding the residence or work address of the support obligor
• § 17401.5 — (a) All of the following shall include notice of, and information about, the child support service hearings available pursuant to Section 17801, provided that there is federal financial participation
• § 17402 — (a) In any case of separation or desertion of a parent or parents from a child or children that results in aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare an
• § 17402.1 — (a) Each local child support agency shall, on a monthly basis, remit to the department both the federal and state public assistance child support payments received pursuant to Section 17402.
• § 17404 — (a) Notwithstanding any other statute, in any action brought by the local child support agency for the support of a minor child or children, the action may be prosecuted in the name of the county on b
• § 17404.1 — (a) Upon receipt of a petition or comparable pleading pursuant to Part 6 (commencing with Section 5700.
• § 17404.2 — (a) If, prior to filing, a petition or comparable pleading pursuant to Part 6 (commencing with Section 5700.
• § 17404.3 — Hearings by telephone, audiovisual means, or other electronic means shall be permitted in child support cases in which the local child support agency is providing child support services.
• § 17404.4 — In exercising the jurisdiction under Section 5700.
• § 17405 — In carrying out duties under this article, the local child support agency shall interview the custodial parent within 10 business days of opening a child support case.
• § 17406 — (a) In all actions involving paternity or support, including, but not limited to, other proceedings under this code, and under Division 9 (commencing with Section 10000) of the Welfare and Institution
• § 17407 — (a) If the Attorney General is of the opinion that a support order or support-related order is erroneous and presents a question of law warranting an appeal, or that an order is sound and should be de
• § 17407.5 — A declaration of state reciprocity issued by the Attorney General on or before December 31, 2015, and a declaration issued pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 5700.
• § 17408 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 17404, upon noticed motion of the local child support agency, the superior court may consolidate or combine support or reimbursement arrearages owed by one obligor to one o
• § 17410 — In any action filed by the local child support agency pursuant to Section 17402 or 17404, the local child support agency shall provide the mother and the alleged father the opportunity to voluntarily
• § 17412 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, an action for child support may be brought by the local child support agency on behalf of a minor child or caretaker parent based upon a voluntary declaration of par
• § 17414 — In any action or proceeding brought by the local child support agency to establish parentage pursuant to Section 17400, the court shall enter a judgment establishing parentage upon the filing of a wri
• § 17415 — (a) It shall be the duty of the county welfare department to refer all cases in which a parent is absent from the home, or in which the parents are unmarried and parentage has not been established by
• § 17416 — (a) When the local child support agency has undertaken enforcement of support, the local child support agency may enter into an agreement with the noncustodial parent, on behalf of a minor child or ch
• § 17418 — In enforcing the provisions of this division, the local child support agency shall inquire of both the custodial and noncustodial parent as to the number of minor children each is legally obligated to
• § 17420 — After judgment in any court action brought to enforce the support obligation of a noncustodial parent pursuant to the provisions of this division, the court shall issue an earnings assignment order fo
• § 17422 — (a) The state medical insurance form required in Article 1 (commencing with Section 3750) of Chapter 7 of Part 1 of Division 9 shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following: (1) The
• § 17424 — (a) A parent who has been served with a medical insurance form shall complete and return the form to the local child support agency’s office within 20 calendar days of the date the form was served.
• § 17428 — In any action or judgment brought or obtained pursuant to Section 17400, 17402, 17404, or 17416, a supplemental complaint may be filed, pursuant to Section 464 of the Code of Civil Procedure and Secti
• § 17430 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, in an action filed by the local child support agency pursuant to Section 17400, 17402, 17404, or 17404.
• § 17432 — (a) In any action filed by the local child support agency pursuant to Section 17400, 17402, 17404, or 17404.
• § 17432.5 — No later than September 1, 2024, the Judicial Council shall adopt and approve any forms necessary to implement Sections 17400, 17404.
• § 17433 — In an action in which a judgment or order for support was entered after the entry of the default of the defendant under Section 17430, the court shall relieve the defendant from that judgment or order
• § 17433.5 — In any action enforced pursuant to this article, no interest shall accrue on an obligation for current child, spousal, family, or medical support due in a given month until the first day of the follow
• § 17434 — (a) The department shall publish a booklet describing the proper procedures and processes for the collection and payment of child and spousal support.
• § 17440 — (a) The Department of Child Support Services shall work with all branches of the United States military and the National Guard to ensure that information is made available regarding the rights and abi
• § 17450 — (a) For purposes of this article: (1) “Child support delinquency” means a delinquency defined in subdivision (c) of Section 17500.
• § 17452 — (a) Subject to state and federal privacy and information security laws, the Franchise Tax Board shall make tax return information available to the department, upon request, for the purpose of collecti
• § 17453 — (a) The department, in coordination with financial institutions doing business in this state, shall operate a Financial Institution Data Match System utilizing automated data exchanges to the maximum
• § 17454 — (a) At least 45 days before sending a notice to withhold, the department shall request that a depository institution provide the department with a designated address for receiving notices to withhold.
• § 17456 — (a) Any person required to withhold and transmit any amount pursuant to this article shall comply with the requirement without resort to any legal or equitable action in a court of law or equity.
• § 17460 — (a) As necessary, the department shall seek reciprocal agreements with other states to improve its ability to collect child support payments from out-of-state obligated parents on behalf of custodial
• § 175 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) There is no resource that is more vital to the continued existence and integrity of recognized Indian tribes than their children, and the Stat
• § 17500 — (a) In carrying out its obligations under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act (42 U.
• § 17502 — A local child support agency that is collecting child support payments on behalf of a child and who is unable to deliver the payments to the obligee because the local child support agency is unable to
• § 17504 — (a) The first one hundred dollars ($100) of any amount of child support collected in a month for a family with one child, or the first two hundred dollars ($200) for a family with two or more children
• § 17504.2 — (a) (1) Any amount of support collected in a month in payment of an assigned support obligation shall be passed through to a former recipient of aid under Article 2 (commencing with Section 11250) of
• § 17504.4 — On a monthly basis, the local child support agency shall provide to any CalWORKs recipient or former recipient for whom an assignment pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 11477 of the Welfare and In
• § 17505 — (a) All state, county, and local agencies shall cooperate with the local child support agency (1) in the enforcement of any child support obligation or to the extent required under the state plan unde
• § 17506 — (a) There is in the department a California Parent Locator Service and Central Registry that shall collect and disseminate all of the following, with respect to any parent, putative parent, spouse, or
• § 17508 — (a) The Employment Development Department shall, when requested by the Department of Child Support Services local child support agency, the federal Parent Locator Service, or the California Parent Loc
• § 17509 — Once the statewide automated system is fully implemented, the Department of Child Support Services shall periodically compare Employment Development Department information collected under Division 1 (
• § 17510 — To assist local agencies in child support enforcement activities, the department shall operate a workers’ compensation notification project based on information received pursuant to Section 138.
• § 17512 — (a) Upon receipt of a written request from a local child support agency enforcing the obligation of parents to support their children pursuant to Section 17400, or from an agency of another state enfo
• § 17514 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to protect individual rights of privacy, and to facilitate and enhance the effectiveness of the child abduction and recovery programs, by ensuring the confident
• § 17516 — In no event shall public social service benefits, as defined in Section 10051 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, or benefits paid pursuant to Title XVI of the Social Security Act be employed to sat
• § 17518 — (a) As authorized by subdivision (d) of Section 704.
• § 17520 — (a) As used in this section: (1) “Applicant” means a person applying for issuance or renewal of a license.
• § 17520.5 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall not include in the list sent to the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to Section 17520, for the purpose of denying, withholding, or susp
• § 17521 — The order to show cause or notice of motion described in subdivision (j) of Section 17520 shall be filed and heard in the superior court.
• § 17522 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, if a support obligor is delinquent in the payment of support for at least 30 days and the local child support agency is enforcing the support obligation pursuant to
• § 17522.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 8112 of the Commercial Code and Section 700.
• § 17523 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a support obligor is delinquent in the payment of support and the local child support agency is enforcing the support obligation pursuant to Section
• § 17523.5 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, in connection with the duty of the department and the local child support agency to promptly and effectively collect and enforce child support obligations under
• § 17524 — (a) Upon making application to the local child support agency for child support enforcement services pursuant to Section 17400, every applicant shall be requested to give the local child support agenc
• § 17525 — (a) Whenever a state or local governmental agency issues a notice of support delinquency, the notice shall state the date upon which the amount of the delinquency was calculated, and shall notify the
• § 17526 — (a) Upon request of an obligor or obligee, the local child support agency shall review the amount of arrearages alleged in a statement of arrearages that may be submitted to the local child support ag
• § 17528 — (a) As authorized by subdivision (c) of Section 704.
• § 17530 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, this section applies to any actions taken to enforce a judgment or order for support entered as a result of action filed by the local child support agency pursuant t
• § 17531 — When a local child support agency closes a child support case containing summary criminal history information, the local child support agency shall delete or purge from the file and destroy any docume
• § 17540 — (a) (1) Commencing July 1, 2000, the department shall pay only those county claims for federal or state reimbursement under this division which are filed with the department within nine months of the
• § 17550 — (a) The Department of Child Support Services, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, shall establish regulations by which the local child support agency, in any case of separati
• § 17552 — (a) (1) The State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the Department of Child Support Services, shall promulgate regulations by which the county child welfare department, in any case o
• § 17555 — (a) Any appropriation made available in the annual Budget Act for the purposes of augmenting funding for local child support agencies in the furtherance of their revenue collection responsibilities sh
• § 17556 — On or before March 1, 2019, and annually thereafter, the department shall submit a report to the Legislature providing information on the status of all of the following: (a) Case-to-staff ratios for e
• § 17560 — (a) The department shall establish and operate a statewide compromise of arrears program pursuant to which the department may accept offers in compromise of child support arrears and interest accrued
• § 17600 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Legislative Analyst has found that county child support enforcement programs provide a net increase in revenues to the state.
• § 17601 — The department shall provide to the Legislature actual performance data on child support collections within 60 days of the end of each quarter.
• § 17602 — (a) The department shall adopt the federal minimum standards as the baseline standard of performance for the local child support agencies and work in consultation with the local child support agencies
• § 17604 — (a) (1) If at any time the director considers any public agency, that is required by law, by delegation of the department, or by cooperative agreement to perform functions relating to the state plan f
• § 177 — (a) In an Indian child custody proceeding, the court shall apply Sections 224.
• § 17701 — (a) There is established within California’s child support program a quality assurance and performance improvement program, pursuant to which local child support agencies, in partnership with the Depa
• § 17702 — (a) The department shall assess, at least once every three years, each county’s compliance with federal and state child support laws and regulations in effect for the time period being reviewed, using
• § 17702.5 — (a) The Child Support Collections Recovery Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury, and shall be administered by the department for the purposes specified in subdivision (c).
• § 17703 — (a) A revolving fund in the State Treasury is hereby created to be known as the Child Support Services Advance Fund.
• § 17704 — (a) For the 1998–99 fiscal year the department shall pay to each county a child support incentive payment.
• § 17708 — (a) This section shall apply to any county that elects to participate in the state incentive program described in Section 17704.
• § 17710 — (a) Each county shall be responsible for any administrative expenditures for administering the child support program not covered by federal and state funds.
• § 17712 — Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 17708, and to the extent funds are appropriated by the annual Budget Act, funds shall be provided to the Judicial Council for the nonfederal share of costs f
• § 17714 — (a) (1) Any funds paid to a county pursuant to this chapter prior to June 30, 1999, which exceed the county’s cost of administering the child support program of the local child support agency pursuant
• § 17800 — Each local child support agency shall maintain a complaint resolution process.
• § 17801 — (a) A custodial or noncustodial parent who is dissatisfied with the local child support agency’s resolution of a complaint shall be accorded an opportunity for a state hearing when one or more of the
• § 17803 — The custodial or noncustodial parent, within one year after receiving notice of the director’s final decision, may file a petition with the superior court, under Section 1094.
• § 17804 — Each local child support agency shall establish the complaint resolution process specified in Section 17800.
• § 180 — (a) In an Indian child custody proceeding notice shall comply with subdivision (b) of this section.
• § 1800 — This part may be cited as the Family Conciliation Court Law.
• § 1801 — The purposes of this part are to protect the rights of children and to promote the public welfare by preserving, promoting, and protecting family life and the institution of matrimony, and to provide
• § 1802 — (a) This part applies only in counties in which the superior court determines that the social conditions in the county and the number of domestic relations cases in the courts render the procedures pr
• § 1810 — Each superior court shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by this part.
• § 1811 — The presiding judge of the superior court shall annually, in the month of January, designate at least one judge to hear all cases under this part.
• § 1812 — (a) The judge of the family conciliation court may transfer any case before the family conciliation court pursuant to this part to the department of the presiding judge of the superior court for assig
• § 1813 — (a) The presiding judge of the superior court may appoint a judge of the superior court other than the judge of the family conciliation court to act as judge of the family conciliation court during an
• § 1814 — (a) In each county in which a family conciliation court is established, the superior court may appoint one supervising counselor of conciliation and one secretary to assist the family conciliation cou
• § 1815 — (a) A person employed as a supervising counselor of conciliation or as an associate counselor of conciliation shall have all of the following minimum qualifications: (1) A master’s degree in psycholog
• § 1816 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Eligible provider” means the Administrative Office of the Courts or an educational institution, professional association, profes
• § 1817 — The probation officer in every county shall do all of the following: (a) Give assistance to the family conciliation court that the court may request to carry out the purposes of this part, and to that
• § 1818 — (a) All superior court hearings or conferences in proceedings under this part shall be held in private and the court shall exclude all persons except the officers of the court, the parties, their coun
• § 1819 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), upon order of the judge of the family conciliation court, the supervising counselor of conciliation may destroy any record, paper, or document filed or kept
• § 1820 — (a) A court may contract with any other court or courts to provide joint family conciliation court services.