FamilyLawGPS California — Early Access
The California Family Code, mapped — and the formula, computed.
The same discipline as the Florida, Texas, North Carolina, and Arizona platforms, on California law: the twelve-gate summary screen asked first, the six-month clock that runs from service or appearance (whichever occurs first), the ATROs that ride every summons, EQUAL community division, the disclosure gate that blocks property judgments — and the first state here whose child-support formula lives IN the statute, so this platform computes it exactly as written and verifies the statute's own text before every calculation.
Dissolution Qualifier
Safety first, then the TWELVE-GATE summary screen before anything else — routed honestly in every direction
Child Support — THE FORMULA
CS = K[HN − (H%)(TN)] computed exactly as § 4055 states it, needle-verified against the stored statute on every render
Deadlines
The six-month floor from service OR appearance — whichever occurs FIRST — plus the thirty-day response window
The ATROs
The restraining orders that take effect automatically with the summons — four categories, both parties, day one
Community Property
Divided EQUALLY — the only equal-mandate state here — with the date-of-separation cutoff organized
Spousal Support
Fourteen § 4320 factors spotted — the ten-year long-duration presumption taught, amounts never invented
Custody & Visitation
Best-interest factors, the § 3044 DV presumption, and mediation-when-contested — California's own words
DVPA Protection
Abuse broader than injury, ex parte same-day, CLETS transmission, firearm prohibition — routed first, always
Filing Check
The defect battery — five-state wrong-authority wall, the disclosure gate, ATRO shapes, caption discipline
Document Drafting
Gated on the B&P § 6400 counsel opinion, honestly — what's available today, and exactly what opens the lane
File & Finish Tracker
ATROs at filing, the clock at service, the DISCLOSURE GATE before judgment — the trap taught in order
California Learn
Twelve corpus-keyed topics — the disclosure-before-judgment trap leads
Counties
Honest by construction — pages appear as BenchPath verifies each of the 58 superior courts
What ships computed
California's child-support guideline is a statutory formula — so this platform computes it, shows its work, and verifies the statute's stored text before every calculation. If that verification ever fails, the calculator refuses and the input organizer stands in — fail-closed, stated on-page.
What waits, honestly
No document generation pending the Legal Document Assistant counsel opinion (B&P § 6400 — the drafting page states the lanes). County pages appear as BenchPath verifies each superior court (0 of 58 today, on purpose). Attorney review stays Florida-only until California reviewers onboard. Deterministic tools only — no generative answering in California at launch.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
Legal information, not legal advice. Official Judicial Council forms control every California filing — this platform routes to them and never imitates them. Verify urgent deadlines with the court or a California attorney.