The Department of Child Support Services is hereby created within the California Health and Human Services Agency. The department shall administer all services and perform all functions necessary to establish, collect, and distribute child support.
Cal. Fam. Code § 17200
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Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 95 Cal. App. 4th 410 - Hart v. Avetoom (2002)
Most recently applied in 129 Cal. App. 4th 798 - Orange County Department of Child Support Services v. Superior Court (May 2005)
Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 478, Sec. 1
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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.
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