Grounds for Dissolution or Legal Separation
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Caffyn v. Caffyn (2004)
Most recently applied in L.G. v. M.B. (July 2018)
Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 9
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.
Dissolution of the marriage or legal separation of the parties may be based on either of the following grounds, which shall be pleaded generally:
(a) Irreconcilable differences, which have caused the irremediable breakdown of the marriage.
(b) Permanent legal incapacity to make decisions.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.