California Code
Family Code - FAM
DIVISION 1 - PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS

PART 1 - PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

Section 1. - 1. This code shall be known as the Family Code....

Section 2. - 2. A provision of this code, insofar as it is...

Section 3. - 3. A provision of this code, insofar as it is...

Section 4. - 4. (a) As used in this section: (1) “New law”...

Section 5. - 5. Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not...

Section 6. - 6. Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the general...

Section 7. - 7. Whenever a reference is made to a portion of...

Section 8. - 8. Unless otherwise expressly stated: (a) “Division” means a division...

Section 9. - 9. The present tense includes the past and future tenses,...

Section 10. - 10. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural,...

Section 11. - 11. A reference to “husband” and “wife,” “spouses,” or “married...

Section 12. - 12. “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive. “Shall not”...

Section 13. - 13. If a provision or clause of this code or...

PART 2 - DEFINITIONS

Section 50. - 50. Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions...

Section 58. - 58. “Child for whom support may be ordered” means a...

Section 63. - 63. “Community estate” includes both community property and quasi-community property....

Section 65. - 65. “Community property” is property that is community property under...

Section 67. - 67. “County” includes city and county. (Enacted by Stats. 1992,...

Section 70. - 70. (a) “Date of separation” means the date that a...

Section 80. - 80. “Employee benefit plan” includes public and private retirement, pension,...

Section 92. - 92. “Family support” means an agreement between the parents, or...

Section 95. - 95. “Income and expense declaration” means the form for an...

Section 100. - 100. “Judgment” and “order” include a decree, as appropriate under...

Section 105. - 105. “Person” includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership,...

Section 110. - 110. “Proceeding” includes an action. (Added by Stats. 1993, Ch....

Section 113. - 113. “Property” includes real and personal property and any interest...

Section 115. - 115. “Property declaration” means the form for a property declaration...

Section 125. - 125. “Quasi-community property” means all real or personal property, wherever...

Section 126. - 126. “Petitioner” includes plaintiff, where appropriate. (Added by Stats. 1999,...

Section 127. - 127. “Respondent” includes defendant, where appropriate. (Enacted by Stats. 1992,...

Section 130. - 130. “Separate property” is property that is separate property under...

Section 142. - 142. “Spousal support” means support of the spouse of the...

Section 143. - 143. “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section...

Section 145. - 145. “State” means a state of the United States, the...

Section 150. - 150. “Support” refers to a support obligation owing on behalf...

Section 155. - 155. “Support order” means a judgment or order of support...

PART 3 - Indian Children

Section 170. - 170. (a) As used in this code, unless the context...

Section 175. - 175. (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1)...

Section 177. - 177. (a) In an Indian child custody proceeding, the court...

Section 180. - 180. (a) In an Indian child custody proceeding notice shall...

Section 185. - 185. (a) In a custody proceeding involving a child who...