The court may, during the pendency of a proceeding or at any time thereafter, make an order for the custody of a child during minority that seems necessary or proper.
Cal. Fam. Code § 3022
General Provisions
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Brittain v. Hansen (2006)
Most recently applied in 238 Cal. App. 4th 1458 - Olson v. Superior Court (July 2015)
Added by renumbering Section 3021 by Stats. 1993, Ch. 219, Sec. 116.12
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.