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Title Forms for Real Property

Learn about the different ways in which spouses may hold title to real property, including as tenants in common, joint tenants, holders of community property, and holders of community property with a right of survivorship.

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All real property and some personal property, such as vehicles, are titled, meaning that documentation of ownership is filed in government records. The California Family Code recognizes four ways in which spouses may hold titled property, namely as tenants in common, joint tenants with a right of survivorship, community property, or community property with a right of survivorship. Regardless of title form, the property will be presumed to be community property in a dissolution proceeding. But...

Lessons

1. Welcome to California Community Property
  • Welcome to California Community Property
2. Property in the Marriage Context
  • Creation of the Marital Economic Community
  • Community Property Versus Separate Property
  • The Characterization Process
3. Characterizing Property
  • Work-Related Compensation
  • Business Interests
  • Other Personal Property
  • The Marital Home
  • Title Forms for Real Property
4. Management, Control, and Liability
  • Management and Control of Personal Property
  • Management and Control of Real Property
  • Fiduciary Duties
  • Liability for Debts
5. Modifying Rules by Agreement
  • Premarital Agreements
  • Defenses to Premarital Agreements
  • Transmutation Agreements
6. Distribution on Dissolution or Death
  • The Dissolution Process
  • The Impact of Separation
  • The Distribution of Assets and Debts on Dissolution
  • Spousal and Child Support
  • The Distribution of Assets and Debts on Death
7. Nonmarital Relationships Affecting Property
  • Registered Domestic Partnerships
  • Void and Voidable Marriages
  • Marvin Relationships