Tag: PROPERTY DIVISION

  • ALIMONY / SPOUSAL SUPPORT

    ALIMONY / SPOUSAL SUPPORT

    Spousal Support (otherwise known as alimony or maintenance) is intended to help the supported spouse to maintain his or her accustomed (marital) standard of living, and to help ease the transition to living as a single person. Either party may be ordered to pay spousal support. No statute requires that…

  • PROPERTY DIVISION

    PROPERTY DIVISION

    MARITAL PROPERTY CONSIDERATIONS Community Property Generally “community property” is all property, real or personal, wherever situated, acquired by a married person during the marriage while domiciled in California except as otherwise provided by statute.  While not intended as an exclusive statement describing all property that might be classified as community…