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Blackacre Facts, Your Honor   You are the judge in the Separatizer Sam/Communitizer Cora divorce.   Sam purchased Blackacre a week before marriage, making a $40,000 HSP down payment. CP made DOMDOS payments that reduced mortgage principal by $80,000. HSP made DOS-Current payments that reduced mortgage principal by another $20,000.   Blac...

Introduction “[E]ither spouse has the management and control of the community perso...

Judge Thomas Trent Lewis would often say that family law attorneys are not only lawyers bu...

EDITOR’S DESK

Debra Frank

Our lead article for this issue of the Specialist is Kim W. Cheatum’s (Law Office of...

THE STATEMENT OF DECISION PROC...

Lisa McCall, Marjorie Fuller

What it is, when you are entitled to one, why it matters, and how to process it  The...

In People v. Sanchez, the 2016 California Supreme Court held expert witnesses can no longe...

In April 2017, we were told that proposed federal tax reform would bring major changes. Ma...

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