Title FAM, California Fam. Code

(a) A child support order issued or modified pursuant to this division shall include a provision requiring the child support obligor to keep the obligee informed of whether the obligor has health insurance made available through the obligor’s employer or has other group health in…

The cost of the health insurance shall be in addition to the child support amount ordered under Article 2 (commencing with Section 4050), with allowance for the costs of health insurance actually obtained given due consideration under subdivision (d) of Section 4059. (Repealed an…

As used in this article, unless the provision or context otherwise requires: (a) “Employer” includes the United States government and any public entity as defined in Section 811.2 of the Government Code. (b) “Health insurance,” “health insurance plan,” “health insurance coverage,…

(a) Upon application by a party or local child support agency in any proceeding where the court has ordered either or both parents to maintain health insurance coverage under Article 1 (commencing with Section 3750), the court shall order the employer of the obligor parent or oth…

Good cause for not making a health insurance coverage assignment order shall be limited to either of the following: (a) The court finds that one of the conditions listed in subdivision (a) of Section 3765 or in Section 3770 exists. (b) The court finds that the health insurance co…

(a) The health insurance coverage assignment order may be ordered at the time of trial or entry of a judgment ordering health insurance coverage. The order operates as an assignment and is binding on any existing or future employer of the obligor parent, or other person providing…

(a) A health insurance coverage assignment order does not become effective until 20 days after service by the applicant of the assignment order on the employer. (b) Within 10 days after service of the order, the employer or other person providing health insurance to the obligor s…

(a) The obligor may move to quash a health insurance coverage assignment order as provided in this section if the obligor declares under penalty of perjury that there is error on any of the following grounds: (1) No order to maintain health insurance has been issued under Article…

(a) The employer, or other person providing health insurance, shall take steps to commence coverage, consistent with the order for the health insurance coverage assignment, within 30 days after service of the assignment order upon the obligor under Section 3764 unless the employe…

The employer or other person providing health insurance shall do all of the following: (a) Notify the applicant for the assignment order or notice of assignment of the commencement date of the coverage of the child. (b) Provide evidence of coverage and any information necessary f…

(a) An employer or other person providing health insurance who willfully fails to comply with a valid health insurance coverage assignment order entered and served on the employer or other person pursuant to this article is liable to the applicant for the amount incurred in healt…

No employer shall use a health insurance coverage assignment order as grounds for refusing to hire a person or for discharging or taking disciplinary action against an employee. An employer who violates this section may be assessed a civil penalty of a maximum of five hundred dol…

Upon notice of motion by the obligor, the court shall terminate a health insurance coverage assignment order if any of the following conditions exist: (a) A new order has been issued under Article 1 (commencing with Section 3750) that is inconsistent with the existing assignment.…

Upon request of the local child support agency the employer shall provide the following information to the local child support agency within 30 days: (a) The social security number of the absent parent. (b) The home address of the absent parent. (c) Whether the absent parent has …

The Judicial Council shall adopt forms for the health insurance coverage assignment required or authorized by this article, including, but not limited to, the application, the order, the statement of the obligor’s rights, and an employer’s return form which shall include informat…

(a) This section applies only to Title IV-D cases where support enforcement services are being provided by the local child support agency pursuant to Section 17400. (b) After the court has ordered that a parent provide health insurance coverage, the local child support agency sha…

In a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or for nullity of marriage, but not in a proceeding for legal separation of the parties, the court, upon the request of a party, shall restore the birth name or former name of that party, regardless of whether a request for restoration …

The restoration of a former name or birth name requested under Section 2080 shall not be denied on the basis that the party has custody of a minor child who bears a different name, or for any other reason except fraud. (Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 780, Sec. 3. (SB 1150) Effective…

This code does not abrogate the common law right of any person to change one’s name. (Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 780, Sec. 4. (SB 1150) Effective January 1, 2025.)

Without filing a petition for dissolution of marriage or legal separation of the parties, a spouse may bring an action for the exclusive custody of the children of the marriage. The court may, during the pendency of the action, or at the final hearing thereof, or afterwards, make…

(a) In any proceeding pursuant to Section 3120, and in any proceeding subsequent to entry of a related judgment, the court shall ensure that each party has access to legal representation, including access early in the proceedings, to preserve each party’s rights by ordering, if n…

Notwithstanding Section 290, a child, family, or spousal support order may be enforced by a writ of execution or a notice of levy pursuant to Section 706.030 of the Code of Civil Procedure or Section 17522 of this code without prior court approval. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 80…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 2060, an order for the payment of child, family, or spousal support may be enforced against an employee benefit plan regardless of whether the plan has been joined as a party to the proceeding in which the support order was obtained. (b) Notwithstandin…

(a) The application for a writ of execution shall be accompanied by an affidavit stating the total amount due and unpaid that is authorized to be enforced pursuant to Sections 5100 to 5103, inclusive, on the date of the application. (b) If interest on the overdue installments is …

In this chapter: (1) “Application” means a request under the Convention by an obligee or obligor, or on behalf of a child, made through a central authority for assistance from another central authority. (2) “Central authority” means the entity designated by the United States or a…

This chapter applies only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of this chapter is inconsistent with Chapters 1 through 6, this chapter controls. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)

The Department of Child Support Services is recognized as the agency designated by the United States central authority to perform specific functions under the Convention. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)

(a) In a support proceeding under this chapter, the Department of Child Support Services shall: (1) transmit and receive applications; and (2) initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state. (b) The following support pr…

(a) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment or modification of a support order or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law of this state applies. (b) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a supp…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a party who is an individual or a support enforcement agency seeking recognition of a Convention support order shall register the order in this state as provided in Chapter 6. (b) Notwithstanding Sections 5700.311 and 5700.602(a),…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, Sections 5700.605 through 5700.608 apply to a contest of a registered Convention support order. (b) A party contesting a registered Convention support order shall file a contest not later than 30 days after notice of the registrat…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a registered Convention support order. (b) The following grounds are the only grounds on which a tribunal of this state may refuse recognition and enforcement of a registered …

If a tribunal of this state does not recognize and enforce a Convention support order in its entirety, it shall enforce any severable part of the order. An application or direct request may seek recognition and partial enforcement of a Convention support order. (Added by Stats. 2…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d), a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a foreign support agreement registered in this state. (b) An application or direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement must be acco…

(a) A tribunal of this state may not modify a Convention child-support order if the obligee remains a resident of the foreign country where the support order was issued unless: (1) the obligee submits to the jurisdiction of a tribunal of this state, either expressly or by defendi…

Personal information gathered or transmitted under this chapter may be used only for the purposes for which it was gathered or transmitted. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)

A record filed with a tribunal of this state under this chapter must be in the original language and, if not in English, must be accompanied by an English translation. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)

(a) The petition, relinquishment or consent, agreement, order, report to the court from any investigating agency, and any power of attorney and deposition filed in the office of the clerk of the court pursuant to this part is not open to inspection by any person other than the pa…

(a) Except as otherwise permitted or required by statute, neither the department nor a licensed adoption agency shall release information that would identify persons who receive, or have received, adoption services. (b) Employees of the department and licensed adoption agencies s…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department or licensed adoption agency that made a medical report required by Section 8706, 8817, or 8909 shall provide a copy of the medical report, in the manner the department prescribes by regulation, to any of the following persons upon…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the laboratory that is storing a blood sample pursuant to Section 8706, 8817, or 8909 shall provide access to the blood sample to only the following persons upon the person’s request: (1) A person who has been adopted pursuant to this part. (2) …

(a) The department or a licensed adoption agency shall do the following: (1) Upon the request of a person who has been adopted pursuant to this part and who has attained 21 years of age, disclose the identity of the person’s birth parent or parents and their most current address …

(a) The department or a licensed adoption agency shall, upon the request of a prospective adoptive parent, disclose an adoption homestudy and any updates to an adoption homestudy to a county or licensed foster family agency for the purpose of approving the prospective adoptive pa…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, if an adult adoptee and the adult adoptee’s birth parents have each filed a written consent with the department or licensed adoption agency, the department or licensed adoption agency may arrange for contact between those persons. Neither the de…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency that joined in the adoption petition shall release the names and addresses of siblings to one another if both of the siblings have attained 18 years of age and have filed the fo…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department or licensed adoption agency shall release any letters, photographs, or other items of personal property in its possession to an adoptee, birth parent, or adoptive parent, upon written request. The material may be requested by any …