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Cal. Fam. Code § 851

Transmutation of Property

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 31 Cal. 4th 657 - Mejia v. Reed (2003)

Most recently applied in 31 Cal. 4th 657 - Mejia v. Reed (August 2003)

Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10

How often courts cite this section

19952000200310
citing decisions per year

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 transmutation is subject to the laws governing fraudulent transfers.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.