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General Provisions for Adult Adoptions

November 27, 2025 2:30 amNovember 27, 2025 2:31 am

Division 13, Part 3, Chapter 1 of the Family Code provides general provisions regarding the adoption of adults and married minors. Section 9300 states that an adult may be adopted by another adult, including a stepparent, as provided in this...

Insights on Legislative and Regulatory Processes and Lobbying

November 26, 2025 2:00 pmNovember 26, 2025 2:01 pm

I have often discussed the legislative and regulatory processes, as well as lobbying in both arenas, and have mentioned that I think there are a number of similarities (and differences, of course) between the processes and lobbying in these two...

Prop 50 Hearing Set for Mid December Despite AG Bonta’s Efforts to ‘Run Out The Clock on Justice’

November 26, 2025 12:23 pmNovember 26, 2025 12:46 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom unconstitutionally overturned the voter-approved California Redistricting Commission with Proposition 50, which was just passed by voters earlier this month. That is bad enough, but the new congressional district maps were drawn based on racial lines, a...

Tax Refunds in 2026 are Projected to be the Largest Ever

November 26, 2025 8:00 amNovember 26, 2025 11:32 am

Tax refunds in 2026 are projected to be the largest ever, the White House reports.: “Tax filers could expect an extra $1,000 bump to their tax refund next year, in what could be a record-breaking tax refund season. In total,...

Covid Flashback: Remember Gov. Newsom’s 2020 Thanksgiving Stay-Home, No ‘Gatherings’, and Curfew Order

November 26, 2025 3:30 amNovember 26, 2025 3:31 am

Every Thanksgiving we like to remind Californians of our terrible, rotten, horrible 2020 Thanksgiving, courtesy of Governor Gavin Newsom during his unwarranted, cruel, evil covid statewide lockdowns. California residents were ordered in 2020 to “Stay home, no singing, no shouting,...

Woke CA Christian Universities: Point Loma Nazarene Rejects a Turning Point USA Branch

November 26, 2025 2:45 amNovember 26, 2025 2:46 am

Elon Musk likes to talk about the “woke mind virus.” Indeed, it seems that wokeness has even infected California Christian universities, as two such schools recently refused to allow conservative-minded groups to form campus chapters. The evangelical Point Loma Nazarene...

Sanctions under the Civil Discovery Act

November 26, 2025 2:30 amNovember 26, 2025 2:31 am

Part 4, Title 4, Chapter 7 of the California Code of Civil Procedure deals with sanctions in instances of civil discovery. Section 2023.010 includes nine specified instances of misuses of the discovery process, but notes that the list is not...