Archive for Community Property

Retirement Benefits at Dissolution

In In Re Marriage of Green, Husband had served in the military for 4 years preceding his marriage to Wife. During marriage, he worked as a firefighter and was given the opportunity to purchase up to four years of service credit towards his retirement benefits (with CalPers) for…

Former spouses co-owning family business after divorce

Ordinarily, marital dissolution involves too much hostility and distrust for couples to co-manage a family business following divorce.  Occasionally, however, divorcing parties believe that it is in their best financial interest to jointly manage and control a family business post divorce.  Read more about this in a recent NYT article:   Read…