Separate Property
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case 33 Cal. App. 4th 277 - In Re Marriage of Haines (1995)
Most recently applied in Brace v. Speier (In re Brace) (November 2018)
Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Separate property of a married person includes all of the following:
(1) All property owned by the person before marriage.
(2) All property acquired by the person after marriage by gift, bequest, devise, or descent.
(3) The rents, issues, and profits of the property described in this section.
(b) A married person may, without the consent of the person’s spouse, convey the person’s separate property.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.