California AB2534: Domestic Violence Prevention Act: forced marriage.

What the bill says

An act to amend Sections 6211, 6301, 6320, and 6340 of, and to add Sections 6217 and 6230 to, the Family Code, relating to domestic violence. domestic violence Domestic Violence Prevention Act: forced marriage. Existing law establishes the Domestic Violence Prevention Act for the purpose of preventing acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse and providing for a separation of the persons involved in the domestic violence for a period sufficient to enable those persons to seek a resolution of the causes of the violence…

From the chaptered text, September 30, 2026:

An act to amend Sections 6211, 6301, 6320, and 6340 of, and to add Sections 6217 and 6230 to, the Family Code, relating to domestic violence. domestic violence Domestic Violence Prevention Act: forced marriage. Existing law establishes the Domestic Violence Prevention Act for the purpose of preventing acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse and providing for a separation of the persons involved in the domestic violence for a period sufficient to enable those persons to seek a resolution of the causes of the violence. Existing law authorizes a court to issue an ex parte protective order enjoining a party from, among other things, disturbing the peace of the other party. Existing law provides that disturbing the peace of the other party refers to conduct that includes coercive control, as defined, which includes unreasonably engaging in specified actions, including isolating the other party from friends, relatives, or other sources of support. Existing law makes an intentional and knowing violation of a protective order punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would include forced marriage for purposes of the act. The bill would define “forced marriage” as a spousal relationship in which one or both parties do not or cannot consent and one or both parties are compelled, through force, fraud, coercion, duress, abuse of power, or coercive control, to enter, …

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