Corpus browser
179663 records-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 558
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 558
A county clerk may provide guidance relating to marriage license applications, marriage license issuance, and the witnessing or solemnizing of the marriage ceremony when the guidance relates to the use of their remote technology pursuant to this part.
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 560
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 560
For purposes of this part, “remote technology” means audiovideo technology that is provided by a county clerk and allows the couple, or the couple and others participating in a marriage solemnization, as applicable, to appear together from the same physical location and directly
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5600
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5600
(a) A local child support agency or obligee may register an order for support or earnings withholding, or both, obtained in another county of the state. (b) An obligee may register a support order in the court of another county of this state in the manner, with the effect, and fo
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5601
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5601
(a) When the local child support agency is responsible for the enforcement of a support order pursuant to Section 17400, the local child support agency may register a support order made in another county by utilizing the procedures set forth in Section 5602 or by filing all of th
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5602
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5602
(a) An obligee other than the local child support agency may register an order issued in this state using the same procedures specified in subdivision (a) of Section 5601, except that the obligee shall prepare and file the statement of registration. The statement shall be verifie
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5603
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5603
(a) An obligor shall have 20 days after the service of notice of the registration of a California order of support in which to file a noticed motion requesting the court to vacate the registration or for other relief. In an action under this section, there shall be no joinder of
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5604
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5604
A previous determination of paternity made by another state, whether established through voluntary acknowledgment procedures in effect in that state or through an administrative or judicial process shall be given full faith and credit by the courts in this state, and shall have t
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5610
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5610
For the purposes of this chapter, “private child support collector” means any individual, corporation, attorney, nonprofit organization, or other nongovernmental entity who is engaged by an obligee to collect child support ordered by a court or other tribunal for a fee or other c
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5611
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5611
(a) A contract for the collection of child support between a private child support collector and an obligee shall be in writing and written in simple language, in at least 10-point type, signed by the private child support collector and the obligee. The contract shall be delivere
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5612
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5612
(a) Each private child support collector: (1) That charges any initial fee, processing fee, application fee, filing fee, or other fee or assessment that must be paid by an obligee regardless of whether any child support collection is made on behalf of the obligee shall make the f
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5613
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5613
(a) An obligee shall have the right to cancel a contract with a private support collector under either of the following circumstances: (1) Within 15 business days of the later of signing the contract, or receiving a blank notice of cancellation form, or at any time if the private
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5614
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5614
(a) A private child support collector shall do all of the following: (1) (A) Provide to an obligee all of the following information: (i) The name of, and any other identifying information relating to, an obligor who made child support payments collected by the private child suppo
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5615
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5615
(a) (1) A person may bring an action for actual damages incurred as a result of a violation of this chapter. (2) In addition to actual damages, a private child support collector who willfully and knowingly violates the provisions of this chapter shall be liable for a civil penalt
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5616
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5616
(a) Every court order for child support issued on or after January 1, 2010, and every child support agreement providing for the payment of child support approved by a court on or after January 1, 2010, shall include a separate money judgment owed by the child support obligor to p
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.101
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.101
(a) This part may be cited as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. (b) There is a federal mandate set forth in Section 666(f) of Title 42 of the United States Code requiring California to adopt and have in effect the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, including any amen
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.102
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.102
In this part: (1) “Child” means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual’s parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. (2) “Child-support order
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.103
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.103
(a) The superior court is the tribunal of this state. (b) The Department of Child Support Services is the support enforcement agency of this state.
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.104
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.104
(a) Remedies provided by this part are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a foreign support order on the basis of comity. (b) This part does not: (1) provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support o
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.105
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.105
(a) A tribunal of this state shall apply Chapters 1 through 6 and, as applicable, Chapter 7, to a support proceeding involving: (1) a foreign support order; (2) a foreign tribunal; or (3) an obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country. (b) A tribunal of this state th
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.201
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.201
(a) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual’s guardian or conservator if: (1) the individual is personally served with
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.202
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.202
Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of this state in a proceeding under this part or other law of this state relating to a support order continues as long as a tribunal of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its order or continuing jurisdiction to
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.203
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.203
Under this part, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state, and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.204
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.204
(a) A tribunal of this state may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed after a pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country only if: (1) the petition or comparable pleading in this state is filed before the e
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.205
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.205
(a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state has and shall exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child-support order if the order is the controlling order and: (1) at the time of the filing of a reque
-
Open
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.206
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 5700.206
(a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce: (1) the order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribu