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2019 California Code
Family Code - FAM
DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT
PART 5 - ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ORDERS
CHAPTER 3 - Deposit of Assets to Secure Future Child Support Payments
ARTICLE 3 - Ex Parte Restraining Orders
Section 4620.

Universal Citation:
CA Fam Code § 4620 (2019)
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4620.  

(a) During the pendency of a proceeding under this chapter, upon the application of either party in the manner provided by Part 4 (commencing with Section 240) of Division 2, the court may, without a hearing, issue ex parte orders restraining any person from transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life, and if the order is directed against a party, requiring the party to notify the other party of any proposed extraordinary expenditures and to account to the court for all such extraordinary expenditures.

(b) The matter shall be made returnable not later than 20 days, or if good cause appears to the court, 25 days from the date of the order at which time the ex parte order shall expire.

(c) The court, at the hearing, shall determine for which property the obligor-parent shall be required to report extraordinary expenditures and shall specify what is deemed an extraordinary expenditure for purposes of this subdivision.

(d) An order issued pursuant to this section after the hearing shall state on its face the date of expiration of the order, which shall expire in one year or upon deposit of assets or money pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 4610), whichever first occurs.

(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.)

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