California is a community property state. Community property plays an important part in property distribution in a legal separation or marital dissolution; the law overseeing community property can be complicated. Community property normally comprises of the assets and debts obtained by spouses throughout the marriage without regards to the income...
Commingling
Commingling is a term used for when a person's separate property, such as a personal inheritance, is placed in the same account or used to buy something as the community property such as earnings from the marriage or domestic partnership. For example, a common occurrence is when one person uses money from the sale...
After an Annulment
After an annulment in California what happens? If your marriage or registered domestic partnership has been annulled, then that means that the relationship was never valid and you might not have certain rights and obligations available to you as you would if you were legally separated or divorced. When your annulment involves...