The romantic notion that California has always been a community property state with a concomitant equality between spouses is false. It is true that the delegates to California’s 1849 constitutional convention did focus upon married women’s property rights. Their focus, however, was limited to separate property. Moreover, although the delegates d...
Thomas Kenney Rachel Leff-Kich
Retroactivity of support orders continues to be a hotbutton issue in California. Over the...