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In California, custody laws are based on the principle of promoting the best interests of the child. This means that a custodial parent should be determined based on what is in the child's best interest rather than favoring one parent over the other.
There is not a specific period that you must live together before you can establish a domestic partnership in California. Any couple who meets the eligibility criteria may register a domestic partnership to receive many of the same rights as married couples.
Because California is not a state that recognizes common law marriage, your girlfriend has no rights to your assets by virtue of the relationship that you had. Any assets that you own individually are yours and not subject to claim by her unless she has some other cause of action against you, such as in contract.
You and the other parent can establish legal parentage for your child without going to court if you both parents sign a Voluntary Declaration of Parentage (VDOP) form and file it with the state. This form is usually signed at a hospital when a child is born. But you can sign it later.
Both parents may have signed a Voluntary Declaration of Paternity at the hospital when the child was born or paternity may also be established by filing a Petition to Establish a Parental Relationship and bringing the case before a judge.
In California a parent has the right (1) to be legally recognized as the parent of a child, (2) to have a parental relationship with the child, and (3) to provide physical, emotional, and financial support to the child. There are two types of parental relationship: natural and presumed parentage.
There is no common law marriage in the State of California. This means that if two people live together, there is no statute that confers the rights of married couples upon them. There are situations also where a couple believes that they are married, but they are in fact, not.
Unmarried couples who live together in California fall under the legal umbrella of 'cohabitation. ' A new law in California allows cohabitating romantic couples to file to be known as a domestic partnership. While this law affords couples similar rights to married couples, the law is only recognized within California.
The two persons are not related by blood in a way that would prevent them from being married to each other in this state. Both persons are at least 18 years of age, except as provided in California Family Code section 297.1. Both persons are capable of consenting to the Domestic Partnership.