Cal. Evidence Code § 1310
Cal. Evidence Code § 1310
California · California Evidence Code · Status: effective
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- Cal. Evidence Code § 1310, California, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-25, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/769558
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(a) Subject to subdivision (b), evidence of a statement by a declarant who is unavailable as a witness concerning his own birth, marriage, divorce, a parent and child relationship, relationship by blood or marriage, race, ancestry, or other similar fact of his family history is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule, even though the declarant had no means of acquiring personal knowledge of the matter declared.
(b) Evidence of a statement is inadmissible under this section if the statement was made under circumstances such as to indicate its lack of trustworthiness.