Divorce residency requirementTo get your marriage dissolved, at least one of the parties must be a resident of California for six months and a resident of the county in which the petition was filed for three months. There is no minimum residency period for a legal separation. A new arrival to California can file a petition for legal separation and then amend the petition when the residency period is met.
The filing date of the amended petition is deemed to be the date of commencement of the preceding for the dissolution of the marriage for purposes of the residency requirement. Therefore, a judgment of dissolution can be final within six months after the original petition for legal separation was served.
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