California Legal Brief

The Rule of In re Marriage of Capos is that a family law order establishing child support arrears is not void for lack of due process when the requesting party clearly stated the relief sought in supporting documentation attached to the formal request, under circumstances where the opposing party received actual notice and filed a substantive response on the merits.

The Rule of Yan v. City of Diamond Bar is that evidence of prior branch failures from the same tree species in the same vicinity is admissible to prove a public entity's actual or constructive notice of a dangerous condition, under circumstances where the trees share common characteristics (same species, maintenance schedule, and environmental factors) and the evidence demonstrates a pattern of recurring problems that should attract the entity's attention to a condition requiring correction.