Subject to this division, a person shall support the person’s spouse.
Cal. Fam. Code § 4300
Duty to Support Spouse
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 24 Cal. 4th 39 - In Re Marriage of Pendleton & Fireman (2000)
Most recently applied in Drissi v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Inc. (January 2008)
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.