If a parent has the duty to provide for the support of the parent’s child and willfully fails to so provide, the other parent, or the child by a guardian ad litem, may bring an action against the parent to enforce the duty.
Cal. Fam. Code § 4000
General Provisions
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 53 Cal. App. 4th 1139 - In Re Marriage of Drake (1997)
Most recently applied in 78 Cal. App. 4th 28 - County of Riverside v. Burt (February 2000)
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.