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DIVISION 6. NULLITY, DISSOLUTION, AND LEGAL SEPARATION 2000-2452›PART 2. JUDICIAL DETERMINATION OF VOID OR VOIDABLE MARRIAGE 2200-2255›CHAPTER 3. Procedural Provisions 2250-2255

§ 2255

California Family Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

The court may grant attorney’s fees and costs in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 2030) of Part 1 in proceedings to have the marriage adjudged void and in those proceedings based upon voidable marriage in which the party applying for attorney’s fees and costs is found to be innocent of fraud or wrongdoing in inducing or entering into the marriage, and free from knowledge of the then existence of any prior marriage or other impediment to the contracting of the marriage for which a judgment of nullity is sought.

(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 219, Sec. 108.5. Effective January 1, 1994.)

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