The purposes of this part are to protect the rights of children and to promote the public welfare by preserving, promoting, and protecting family life and the institution of matrimony, and to provide means for the reconciliation of spouses and the amicable settlement of domestic and family controversies.
(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.)
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