Real Estate/Development
Oct. 28, 2026
Partition referees are becoming central to California co-ownership litigation
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Ori S. Blumenfeld
Principal Attorney
Offit Kurman, P.C.
Creditors' Rights, Reorganization and Bankruptcy Practice Group
California partition practice is changing in a subtle but important way. The partition referee, once viewed largely as the person appointed after interlocutory judgment to list, sell and close escrow on jointly owned real property, increasingly serves as the operational center of the case. In disputes involving inherited property, family co-ownership, rising carrying costs, contested occupancy, deferred maintenance and high-value assets, the older, narrower view no longer f...
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