Court Opinion

ID: 9590244
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:52:58.607168+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:12:20.698957
License: Public Domain

SHENK, J.
I dissent. However desirable a change in the public policy of this state on the subject of recrimination may be thought to be, I feel impelled to adhere to the views stated by me in De Burgh v. De Burgh, 39 Cal.2d 858, 882 [250 P.2d 598], The legislature established the state policy in 1872 by the enactment of section 111 of the Civil Code where it is provided that: “Divorce must be denied upon showing . . . 4. Recrimination.” That policy continued until 1952 when this court in the De Burgh case ruled otherwise. The Legislature has the first right to establish the public policy of the state. When it has spoken on a subject so peculiarly within its dominion and in no uncertain terms it is incompetent for the court to declare otherwise.