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...
S. Roger Rombro
On the rainy evening of September 27, 1849, the delegates of California’s first Cons...
S. Roger Rombro
The community property laws under the Spanish Mexican system directed that all income acqu...
S. Roger Rombro
The romantic notion that California has always been a community property state with a conc...