RIGHTS OF PARENTS
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 144 Cal. App. 4th 344 - NIKO v. Foreman (2006)
Most recently applied in Jaime Taormina Bisbing v. Glenn R. Bisbing, III (077533) (Sussex County and Statewide) (August 2017)
Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 674, Sec. 1
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) A parent entitled to the custody of a child has a right to change the residence of the child, subject to the power of the court to restrain a removal that would prejudice the rights or welfare of the child.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to affirm the decision in In re Marriage of Burgess (1996) 13 Cal.4th 25, and to declare that ruling to be the public policy and law of this state.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.