2011 California Code
Family Code
DIVISION 9. SUPPORT [3500 - 5616]
CHAPTER 2. Factors to be Considered in Ordering Support
Section 4325


CA Fam Code § 4325 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

(a) In any proceeding for dissolution of marriage where there is a criminal conviction for an act of domestic violence perpetrated by one spouse against the other spouse entered by the court within five years prior to the filing of the dissolution proceeding, or at any time thereafter, there shall be a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of proof that any award of temporary or permanent spousal support to the abusive spouse otherwise awardable pursuant to the standards of this part should not be made.

(b) The court may consider documented evidence of a convicted spouse s history as a victim of domestic violence, as defined in Section 6211, perpetrated by the other spouse, or any other factors the court deems just and equitable, as conditions for rebutting this presumption.

(c) The rebuttable presumption created in this section may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence.

(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 293, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2002.)

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