The presumption that property acquired during marriage is community property does not apply to any property to which legal or equitable title is held by a person at the time of the person’s death if the marriage during which the property was acquired was terminated by dissolution of marriage more than four years before the death.
Cal. Fam. Code § 802
Presumptions Concerning Nature of Property
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 76 Cal. App. 4th 1378 - Mitchell v. Mitchell (1999)
Most recently applied in 76 Cal. App. 4th 1378 - Mitchell v. Mitchell (December 1999)
Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10
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