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Cal. Fam. Code § 4002

General Provisions

Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 14 Cal. 4th 504 - In Re Marriage of Comer (1996)

Most recently applied in 94 Cal. App. 4th 418 - County of Lake v. Palla (December 2001)

Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10

How often courts cite this section

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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.

(a) The county may proceed on behalf of a child to enforce the child’s right of support against a parent.

(b) If the county furnishes support to a child, the county has the same right as the child to secure reimbursement and obtain continuing support. The right of the county to reimbursement is subject to any limitation otherwise imposed by the law of this state.

(c) The court may order the parent to pay the county reasonable attorney’s fees and court costs in a proceeding brought by the county pursuant to this section.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.