2015 California Code
Evidence Code - EVID
DIVISION 10 - HEARSAY EVIDENCE
CHAPTER 2 - Exceptions to the Hearsay Rule
ARTICLE 11 - Family History
Section 1315.
1315. Evidence of a statement concerning a person s birth, marriage, divorce, death, parent and child relationship, race, ancestry, relationship by blood or marriage, or other similar fact of family history which is contained in a writing made as a record of a church, religious denomination, or religious society is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if:
(a) The statement is contained in a writing made as a record of an act, condition, or event that would be admissible as evidence of such act, condition, or event under Section 1271; and
(b) The statement is of a kind customarily recorded in connection with the act, condition, or event recorded in the writing.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1244.)
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