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California · 2025-2026 Regular Session
SB589Spousal support: factors.
Direction
Custody & supportalimonyAI label
↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 90%
Extends the prohibition on spousal support awards (and related attorney fee and property rules) to cases where the family court finds a violent sexual felony occurred without a criminal conviction, so the paying or less-custodial spouse faces more restrictions on receiving support.
In a proceeding for dissolution of marriage where there is a criminal conviction for a violent sexual felony or a domestic violence felony perpetrated by one spouse against the other spouse or, in the absence of a criminal conviction, if the family court finds that a violent sexual felony has, in fact, been perpetrated by one spouse against the other
↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 80%
Extends the prohibition on spousal support awards (and related attorney fee and property rules) to cases where the family court finds a violent sexual felony occurred without a criminal conviction, so the paying or less-custodial spouse faces more restrictions on receiving support when domestic- or-
or, in the absence of a criminal conviction, if the family court finds that a violent sexual felony has, in fact, been perpetrated by one spouse against the other
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Governor
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Status: Failed
Last action
2026-02-02: Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends Family Code §4324.5 to add a family-court finding of a violent sexual felony (without conviction) as a trigger for barring spousal support to the perpetrator, shifting the date of separation earlier, awarding 100% of retirement benefits to the injured spouse, and related attorney-fee rules; these changes increase obligations/reduce rights for the paying or less-custodial spouse in the alimony context and interact with domestic-violence findings that affect support awards.
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