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Focus (Forum & Focus)

May 23, 2007

Apportioning Property

Focus Column – By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus – A Court of Appeal decision provides an unusual example of the division of marital property based on equity rather than rules of law.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus

      A decision by the 2nd District Court of Appeal from November provides a rare example of the division of marital property based on equity rather than rules of law.
      In the case of In re Marriage of Geraci, 144 Cal.App.4th 1278 (2006), the court laid out the rules for reimbursement of separate property that one spouse has cont...

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