Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14055 · Article 2. Definitions
Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14055
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) For the purposes of this chapter, “caretaker relative” means a relative of a dependent child by blood, adoption, or marriage with whom the child is living, who assumes primary responsibility for the child’s care, and who is one of the following:
(1) The child’s father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, great grandparent, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, great-great grandparent, great uncle or aunt, first cousin, great-great-great grandparent, great-great uncle or aunt, or first cousin once removed.
(2) The spouse or registered domestic partner of one of the relatives identified in paragraph (1), even after the marriage is terminated by death or divorce or the domestic partnership has been legally terminated.
(b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2014.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2013, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 3, Sec. 23. (AB 1 1x) Effective September 30, 2013. Section operative January 1, 2014, by its own provisions.
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