California Legal Codes and Statutes

§ 9

Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.

The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.

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Cal. Fam. Code § 9 (2026)
https://ca.codecond.com/codes/fam/division-1-preliminary-provisions-and-definitions/part-1-preliminary-provisions/section-9

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