Introduction On July 20, 2015, the California Supreme Court issued In re Marriage of Davis, 61 Cal. 4th 846 (2015) (Davis). For the purpose of determining when a couple is “separated” and thus no longer acquiring community property, Davis adopted the reasoning from Norviel1 and construed the phrase “living separate and apart” as requ...
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...