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Feb. 1, 2015

Verbatim

"Family law is not getting any easier."

- Justice William W. Bedsworth's opening line in Helgestad v. Vargas (231 Cal. App. 4th 719, 721 (2014)), in which the Court of Appeal weighed whether a father can claim credit for in-the-home child support based on a paternity judgment as opposed to a dissolution proceeding.
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