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DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES 10000-18999.98›PART 3. AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 11000-15771›CHAPTER 7. Basic Health Care 14000-14199.97›ARTICLE 2. Definitions 14050-14068

§ 14055

California Welfare and Institutions Code · 2026 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

(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.

(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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