Month: May 2019

Family Code section 4336 defines a short-term marriage as a marriage of less than 10 years (the "marriage" being date of marriage to date of separation). The impact on whether the parties had a short-term or long-term marriage relates to spousal support and whether...

Many people hear the phrase "Epstein credits" and "Watts charges," and wonder what that is all about. An Epstein credit is a right to be reimbursed by the other spouse for one-half of separate property money used after the date of separation to pay a community debt. A...

A transmutation is a change in the character of property, such (a) as from community property of both spouses to the separate property of one spouse, (b) from the separate property of one spouse to the community property of the other, or (c) from the separate property...