An unmarried minor may be adopted by an adult as provided in this part.
Cal. Fam. Code § 8600
General Provisions
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 31 Cal. 4th 417 - Sharon S. v. Superior Court (2003)
Most recently applied in Butler v. Adoption Media, LLC (March 2007)
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.