“Sole legal custody” means that one parent shall have the right and the responsibility to make the decisions relating to the health, education, and welfare of a child.
Cal. Fam. Code § 3006
Definitions
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Minasyan v. Gonzales (2005)
Most recently applied in San Diego Cnty. Health & Human Servs. Agency v. H.S. (In re Collin E.) (July 2018)
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.