Community Property in California

by Blumberg, Grace Ganz

• ISBN13: 9780735500228
• ISBN10: 0735500223
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Summary

COMMUNITY PROPERTY IN CALIFORNIA, Third Edition, offers your students a scope and depth of coverage unmatched by any other casebook. Author Grace Ganz Blumberg, The reporter For The ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, draws on her vast practical as well as teaching experience to preent a thoughtful and current analysis of community property issues. She provides all the community property material needed For The California bar examination in the areas of divorce, decedent's estates, and debtor-creditor law. Going beyond a statement of the law to actually put the law in its proper context, she uses an effective blend of: cases; notes; references To The Uniform Marital Property Act; and comparisons to other jurisdictions COMMUNITY PROPERTY IN CALIFORNIA, Third Edition, reflets important developments including: new material on same-sex marriage, including the historicl Hawaii cases, The federal Defense of Marriage Act, and developments in California Lezine v. Security Pacific Financial Services concerning the transference of security interest on community property without spousal consent, And The legislative response to this decision in the California Supreme Court the Hilke and Heikes cases concerning property held in joint title the U.S. Supreme Court ERISA preemption cse of Boggs v. Boggs the characterization of early retirement benefits as treated by the California Supreme Court in the Lehman case material on marital property from the ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution California statutory materials presented in an accessible appendix A Teacher's manual is available.

Table of Contents

Contents	xi
Preface	xxiii
Acknowledgments	xxvii
Introduction	1	(82)
The History of California Community Property	83	(16)
Transmutation: Contracts and Gifts	99	(42)
Definitional and Tracing Issues	141	(18)
Evidentiary Presumptions in California Community Property Law	159	(76)
Classification of Property	235	(204)
Management and Creditors' Rights	439	(74)
Inception and Termination of the Economic Community	513	(56)
Property Distribution at Divorce	569	(64)
Property Distribution at Death	633	(26)
Choice of Law at Divorce and Death	659	(52)
Federal Preemption of State Marital Property Law	711	(114)
California Statutory Appendix	727	(2)
Selected Provisions from the California Family Code	729	(80)
Selected Provisions from the California Probate Code	809	(14)
California Financial Code Section 851	823	(2)
Table of Cases	825	(6)
Index	831