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Cal. Fam. Code § 6211

SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS

Known as the Domestic Violence Prevention Act

The act spans §§ 6200–6460 (107 sections).

Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case 28 Cal. 4th 923 - People v. Wutzke (2002)

Most recently applied in Herriott v. Herriott (March 2019)

Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 219, Sec. 154

How often courts cite this section

20002010201940
citing decisions per year

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.

“Domestic violence” is abuse perpetrated against any of the following persons:

(a) A spouse or former spouse.

(b) A cohabitant or former cohabitant, as defined in Section 6209.

(c) A person with whom the respondent is having or has had a dating or engagement relationship.

(d) A person with whom the respondent has had a child, where the presumption applies that the male parent is the father of the child of the female parent under the Uniform Parentage Act (Part 3 (commencing with Section 7600) of Division 12).

(e) A child of a party or a child who is the subject of an action under the Uniform Parentage Act, where the presumption applies that the male parent is the father of the child to be protected.

(f) Any other person related by consanguinity or affinity within the second degree.

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