Payment of child support ordered by the court shall be made by the person owing the support payment before payment of any debts owed to creditors.
Cal. Fam. Code § 4011
General Provisions
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 21 Cal. App. 4th 1790 - Wujcik v. Wujcik (1994)
Most recently applied in 7 Cal. 5th 761 - Christensen v. Lightbourne (July 2019)
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.