The purpose of this part is to serve the welfare and best interest of a child by providing the stability and security of an adoptive home when those conditions are otherwise missing from the child’s life.
Cal. Fam. Code § 7800
General Provisions
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case 29 Cal. 4th 200 - Walter W. v. Jacqueline W. (2002)
Most recently applied in 136 Cal. App. 4th 980 - In Re Marriage of Jackson (February 2006)
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.