Court Opinion

ID: 9602797
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 02:00:00.643524+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:02:06.638970
License: Public Domain

KAUFMAN, J.
—I concur.The evidence in the record submitted by respondent to show a purported marriage is *268incredible and unworthy of belief and therefore insufficient to sustain a finding of a putative marriage. Under these circumstances we are not reweighing the evidence or resolving conflicts but determining that there is no credible or substantial evidence in the record to sustain the lower court’s finding, . (People v. Headlee, 18 Cal.2d 267 [115 P.2d 427].)
Respondent would ask a court to believe that on the day of the purported marriage appellant and a man drove up to the house in a government truck; entered the house, and the man who was not introduced to her in any official capacity or as a minister, priest or judge and who did not exhibit a marriage license, performed a marriage ceremony. This was done, according to respondent, without a witness being present and without ever having applied for a license to marry. It is significant to note that respondent had previously been married twice before, had applied for marriage licenses and had the ceremonies performed in the presence of witnesses.
Other findings of the trial court are likewise not supported by substantial evidence, but in view of the fact that the evidence is insufficient to show that respondent entered into the purported marriage in good faith, it is unnecessary to discuss them.