Family Law: Litigant Failing To Show She Was A Putative Domestic Partner Was Not Entitled To Attorney’s Fees Award

Marriage of Aviles Opinion Supported The Result.

Marriage of Chevallier & Rodriguez, Case No. H052644 et al. (6^th Dist. May 15, 2026) (unpublished) determined a litigant, who together with her boyfriend did not file Declarations of Domestic Partnership with California’s Secretary of State, was properly denied an attorney’s fees award by the lower court because she failed to meet her burden of establishing that she was a putative domestic partner.  (Family Code § 297, et. seq.; Cf. In re Marriage of Aviles & Vulovic, 79 Cal.App.5^th 694, 701 (2022).)