California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 25 - Support of Wards and Dependent Children

• Section 900.
  (a) If it is necessary that provision be made for the expense of support and maintenance of a dependent child of the juvenile court or of...
• Section 901.
  No order for payment shall be made in a sum in excess of the actual cost of supporting and maintaining the ward, dependent child or...
• Section 902.
  (a) If it is found that the maximum amount established by the board of supervisors of the county is insufficient to pay the whole expense of...
• Section 903.
  (a) The father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor, the estate of that person, and the estate of the minor,...
• Section 903.1.
  (a) (1) (A) The father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor, the estate of that person, and the estate of the minor,...
• Section 903.2.
  (a) The juvenile court may require that the father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor, the estate of that person,...
• Section 903.25.
  (a) In addition to the liability established by any other law, a parent or guardian of a minor who has been delivered to the custody of...
• Section 903.3.
  (a)  A person who is 26 years of age or older shall, unless indigent, be liable for the cost to the county and court for...
• Section 903.4.
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds that even though Section 903 establishes parental liability for the cost of the care, support, and maintenance of a child in a...
• Section 903.41.
  (a) It is the intention of the Legislature that the family law departments and juvenile departments of each superior court coordinate determinations of parentage and the...
• Section 903.45.
  (a) The board of supervisors may designate a county financial evaluation officer pursuant to Section 27750 of the Government Code to make financial evaluations of liability...
• Section 903.47.
  (a) The Judicial Council shall establish a program to collect reimbursements from the person liable for the costs of counsel appointed to represent parents or minors...
• Section 903.5.
  (a) In addition to the requirements of Section 903.4, and notwithstanding any other law, the parent or other person legally liable for the support of a...
• Section 903.6.
  Funds collected pursuant to Sections 903, 903.4, and 903.5 shall be distributed in the following manner:(a) If the program through which the minor is placed is...
• Section 903.7.
  (a) There is in the State Treasury the Foster Children and Parent Training Fund. The moneys contained in the fund shall be used exclusively for the...
• Section 903.8.
  (a) Beginning January 1, 1994, the State Department of Social Services shall develop and implement an enhanced statewide basic foster parent training program. It is the...
• Section 904.
  (a) The monthly or daily charge, not to exceed cost, for care, support, and maintenance of minor persons placed or detained in or committed to any...
• Section 911.
  No order for payment from the county treasury of the expense of support and maintenance of a ward or dependent child of the juvenile court...
• Section 912.
  (a) Commencing on and after January 1, 2012, counties from which persons are committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, shall...
• Section 913.
  When any person has been adjudged to be a ward or dependent child of the juvenile court, and the court has made an order committing...
• Section 914.
  As used in this article, “expense for support and maintenance” includes the reasonable value of any medical services furnished to the ward or dependent child...

Last modified: October 22, 2018