Understanding California Community Property Law

Understanding California Community Property Law is the first volume of its kind to present and to extend the field. Coverage includes all basic issues related to the ownership of property during marriage.
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The second edition of Understanding California Community Property Law explains the California community property system as it relates to the ownership of property during marriage. Statues are updated and quoted where relevant. Case law is updated and explained. Issues of ownership during marriage, community property management and control, liability, partition, and dissolution are covered. So too are premarital contracts, transmutations, and contracts between intimate partners.

Understanding California Community Property Law specifically extends the field by contextualizing the California Multiple-Party Accounts Law and the California Domestic Violence Prevention Act within the community property system. Each chapter includes a series of concise examples that illustrate how the California Family Code applies. Appellate cases are reported by judicial district.

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Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 The California Community Property System in Context
Part II The Importance of Characterization
Chapter 2 Community Property
Chapter 3 Separate Property
Part III Commingled Property
Chapter 4 An Overview of Terms, Principles, and Issues
Chapter 5 Accounts and Purchases Made from a Commingled Account
Chapter 6 Credit Questions
Chapter 7 Separate Property Business Growth
Chapter 8 Life Insurance
Chapter 9 Work Life: From Training to Retirement
Part IV Duties, Rights, and Liabilities
Chapter 10 Management and Control of Community Property
Chapter 11 Domestic Violence
Chapter 12 General Principles of Community Property Liability
Part V Contracts Between Prospective Spouses, Spouses, and Nonmarried Cohabitants
Chapter 13 Premarital Agreements
Chapter 14 Transmutation
Chapter 15 Nonmarital Relationships
Part VI Termination of Marriage
Chapter 16 Judgments of Dissolution, Legal Separation, and Nullity
Chapter 17 Death