What is the legal test for determining whether Section 6 of the California Civil Code is unconstitutional?

We will apply the rational basis level of review. (See People v. Wilkinson (2004) 33 Cal.4th 821 [rejecting strict scrutiny standard in analyzing a suspect criminal classification]; Johnson v. Department of Justice (2015) 60 Cal.4th 871, 881 [where a disputed statutory disparity implicates no suspect class or fundamental right, equal protection is violated only where there is no rational relationship between the disparity of treatment and some legitimate governmental purpose].) Under this standard, we perceive a rational basis for the challenged classification. The trial court's determination of

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