CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Enforcement
......Support Orders
.........Criminal Options/State
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Criminal action for failure to provide for child.

Leaving state to avoid spousal support obligation is a misdemeanor.

DA must prove beyond reasonable doubt that parent’s failure to provide was willful.

Husband who consented to artificial insemination of W with semen of 3d-party donor was guilty of PC 270 failure to support child who was product of the insemination.