Transmutation of Property
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case 33 Cal. App. 4th 277 - In Re Marriage of Haines (1995)
Most recently applied in Clifford Brace, Jr. v. Steven Speier (November 2020)
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.
Subject to Sections 851 to 853, inclusive, married persons may by agreement or transfer, with or without consideration, do any of the following:
(a) Transmute community property to separate property of either spouse.
(b) Transmute separate property of either spouse to community property.
(c) Transmute separate property of one spouse to separate property of the other spouse.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.