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...
Thirty years ago I became a certified family law specialist—a designation that was t...
Seth Kramer
Thirty years ago I became a certified family law specialist—a designation that was t...
Debra Frank
As the Specialist goes to press in early December for the first issue of 2017, I am writin...
Greg Herring Cassandra Glanville
In 1996 the California Law Revision Commission (“LRC”) developed and proposed...
Jeri Hamlin Rebecca Wightman
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Dawn Gray Hon. Thomas Trent Lewis Ret.
Introduction On July 20, 2015, the California Supreme Court issued In re Marriage of Davi...