Marital property, also known as marital assets, spousal assets or community property, matters when it comes to taxes, estate law and divorce. In most cases, separate property applies to the assets you ...

Assets inherited by one partner in a marriage can be considered separate and owned only by that partner. However, inheritances can be ruled as marital property jointly owned by both partners and, ...

If you’re thinking about filing for divorce, you might also be thinking about how your assets will be divided. For those who ...

If you live in a community property state, it is critical that separate property assets be titled and handled correctly or ...

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According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), divorces and annulments were provisionally counted in the United States at 672,502 for the year 2023, which translates ...

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Q: Rene Cruz and Rosa Santos were married in 1980. During their marriage, they acquired a house and land in Laguna in 1982. The transfer certificate of title of the said property is registered in the ...

When inchoate rights become actual ownership interests by virtue of equitable distribution judgments, they are susceptible to even greater protection because their enhancement status eliminates some ...