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Written by a recognized expert on community property and family law issues in California, Grace Ganz Blumberg’s comprehensive casebook prepares students for the California bar examination and equips them for California practice in the areas of divorce, decedents’ estates, and debtor-creditor law. Community Property in California carefully balances cases, notes, questions, and problems for student comprehension. Because community property is a relatively narrow subject involving the interplay of state legislation and case law, the casebook is structured to encourage students to develop and refine their analytic skills and to enable professors to guide their students in doing so. Comparative text puts California law into context by including references to sister-state law, the Uniform Marital Property Act and the marital property chapter of the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. New to the 8th Edition: The California Supreme Court’s 2020 decision, In re Brace, which upended almost a century of community property law, leaving many unresolved questions in its wake. Critical notes on the origins and subsequent development of the Pereira/Van Camp business apportionment doctrine. Further treatment of the Family Code section 4 rule requiring that current family law be applied to events occurring before its effective date, with particular attention to the enforceability of premarital agreements entered under prior law. Professors and students will benefit from: Problems and questions for stimulating class discussion Thorough preparation for the community property essay question on the California bar examination A casebook that students enjoy reading A focus on enhanced lawyering skills, with emphasis on problem solving

COMMUNITY PROPERTY IN CALIFORNIA, Third Edition, offers your students a scope and depth of coverage unmatched by any other casebook. Author Grace Ganz Blumberg, The reporter For The ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, draws on her vast practical as well as teaching experience to preent a thoughtful and current analysis of community property issues. She provides all the community property material needed For The California bar examination in the areas of divorce, decedent's estates, and debtor-creditor law. Going beyond a statement of the law to actually put the law in its proper context, she uses an effective blend of: cases; notes; references To The Uniform Marital Property Act; and comparisons to other jurisdictions COMMUNITY PROPERTY IN CALIFORNIA, Third Edition, reflets important developments including: new material on same-sex marriage, including the historicl Hawaii cases, The federal Defense of Marriage Act, and developments in California Lezine v. Security Pacific Financial Services concerning the transference of security interest on community property without spousal consent, And The legislative response to this decision in the California Supreme Court the Hilke and Heikes cases concerning property held in joint title the U.S. Supreme Court ERISA preemption cse of Boggs v. Boggs the characterization of early retirement benefits as treated by the California Supreme Court in the Lehman case material on marital property from the ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution California statutory materials presented in an accessible appendix A Teacher's manual is available.