Interesting Preliminary Provisions of the Family Code
Interesting Preliminary Provisions of the Family Code By Chris Micheli California’s over 155,000 statutes are contained in 29 separate Codes. The ninth alphabetically is the Family Code. All 29 Codes have general or preliminary provisions applicable to reading and interpreting that Code’s sections. In reviewing those introductory provisions contained in the Family Code, a few of them caught my attention, including the following, and I have added some commentary: Section 3 – A provision of this Code, if it is the same in substance as a provision of a uniform act, it is to be construed to effectuate the general purpose to make uniform the law in those states which enact that provision. Comment : Uniform acts are an important tool in drafting statutes both nationally and internationally. The idea behind a uniform act is that all legislative bodie...