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Orange County California Experienced Community Property Division Attorney

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 or contributions of individual spouses.…
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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 of house prior to the…
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What is Separate Property?

Separate property is property that during a divorce does not need to be divided. At times, although property was acquired during marriage it can still be considered separate property. In addition, if something was a gift or inherited it is also separate property. Therefore, these types of property obtained would not need to be divided…
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What is Community Property?

Any property that one obtains during a marriage is known as community property. Under the law community property is to be split 50/50 during the divorce. Community property is also property obtained during marriage and before the couple separated. Although at times property is only in one of the spouses names the law will recognize…
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Dividing Property

Once you are divorced from your spouse or separated from your domestic partner, the property that was acquired during your union will need to be fairly divided. Even if this issue was decided upon outside of the court, the judge will need to make a formal order to avoid any legal confusion in the future.…
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