Bassett on California Community Property Law, 2022-2023 ed. (The Expert Series)

Bassett on California Community Property Law integrates primary law with comprehensive analysis. The author presents an in-depth exploration of the complex area of marital property rights in California.

Coverage includes an overview of the origins and development of California's community property principles and a detailed examination of the current system and new developments. Use this book to:

• Examine the similarities and differences between marriage and cohabitation
• Review the details of prenuptial and interspousal agreements, pensions, insurance, personal injury, and workers' compensation dispensation
• Discover the best means for protecting community property from gifts and transfers
• Review interspousal accounting and creditors' rights, along with equitable division of community property upon dissolution, annulment, or separation
• Look at special problems in evaluating and dividing community assets
• Examine the tax aspects of property division and support
• Analyze succession to marital property when spouse dies
• Stay up to date on military and federal civil service disability, separation, and retirement programs