Parent and Child Relationship
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 12 Cal. 4th 1143 - Smith v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission (1996)
Most recently applied in A.G. v. Cnty. of L. A. (October 2018)
Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 529, Sec. 5
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.
Subject to the provisions of this chapter, a relationship of parent and child exists for the purpose of determining intestate succession by, through, or from a person in the following circumstances:
(a) The relationship of parent and child exists between a person and the person’s natural parents, regardless of the marital status of the natural parents.
(b) The relationship of parent and child exists between an adopted person and the person’s adopting parent or parents.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.