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Effective Jan 1, 2011Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 352, Sec. 7. (AB 939) Effective January 1, 2011.
- (a) All dissolution actions, to the greatest extent possible, shall be assigned to the same superior court department for all purposes, in order that all decisions in a case through final judgment shall be made by the same judicial officer. However, if the assignment will result in a significant delay of any family law matter, the dissolution action need not be assigned to the same superior court department for all purposes, unless the parties stipulate otherwise.
- (b) The Judicial Council shall adopt a standard of judicial administration prescribing a minimum length of assignment of a judicial officer to a family law assignment.
- (c) This section shall be operative on July 1, 1997.