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 each other, as is appropriate under the circumstances of the particular case.
Cal. Fam. Code § 11
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Known as the Family Code
The act spans §§ 1–13 (13 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Gill v. Warranty Escrow Co. (In re LaNess) (1993)
Most recently applied in Ferry v. De Longhi America Inc. (August 2017)
Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.