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Family

Jun. 5, 2023

Cultural Divorce, Part VI: Cultural date of marriage

Cultural interest in marriage was created before the California solemnization of marriage. In some far horizons, many moons before its rise on the eve of the California solemnization, the soon-to-be cultural spouses began a journey toward an eventual union. They start navigation aided by campuses sensitive to the interest of their ancestors, in-laws, future spouses, social sub-groups, and extended families.

A California divorce attorney and a California cultural client will see many questions in the Petition for Dissolution (FL-100) and reach different answers. One is in Box 3.a.(1): “Date of Marriage.” The other one is in Box 3.a.(2): “Date of Separation.” Both questions instruct in parenthesis to (specify) but without explaining what. So automatically, a divorce attorney, following the provisions of Family Code Sections 300-308, jogs down t...

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