The purpose of this division is to prevent acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse and to provide for a separation of the persons involved in the domestic violence for a period sufficient to enable these persons to seek a resolution of the causes of the violence.
Cal. Fam. Code § 6220
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Known as the Domestic Violence Prevention Act
The act spans §§ 6200 to 6460 (107 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 229 Cal. App. 4th 27 - S.A. v. Maiden (2014)
Most recently applied in Herriott v. Herriott (March 2019)
Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 635, Sec. 3
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.