San Joaquin College of Law

Community Property B COURSE ASSIGNMENTS Spring 2010 / Cartier

                                                                                                                       

TEXT: Blumberg, Community Property in California,5th Ed., Aspen.

 

Class meets on Thursday from 130-4:30 p.m. except as noted

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DATE

 

5th ed.

 

TOPICS

1/7/2010

1-49

 

Introduction; Marital Property Systems; The History of Community Property in California  |  ComProp-01  / pdf-01

1/14

 

49-76

(77-90)

 

Interspousal Wealth Allocation in Context of Family Law  |  ComProp-02  / pdf-02

 

1/28

 

91-154

 

Contractual Modification:  Premarital Agreements and Transmutations During Marriage  |  ComProp-03 / pdf-03

2/4

155-197

 

Definitional and Tracing Issues: Community Property and Separate Property; Evidentiary Presumptions; Title Presumptions: Married Woman by a Writing  |  ComProp-04 / pdf04

2/11

197-248

 

Title Presumptions: Jointly Held Property  | ComProp-05 / pdf-05

 

2/25

 

 

249-293

 

Classification of Property: Commingled Funds; Apportionment of Business Profits; Credit Acquisitions  | ComProp-06 / pdf-06

3/4

294-322

 

Apportionment of Ownership; Tort Recoveries and Insurance Proceeds; Business and Professional goodwill; Degrees and Licenses  | ComProp-07  / pdf-07

3/11

 

322-413

685-699

 

Employment Benefits: Pensions, Disability, Severance Pay, Early Retirement Benefits; Insurance; Federal Preemption | ComProp-08 / pdf-08

 

3/18

 

 

 

INTERIM EXAM

3/25

 

415-476

 

Management and Control of Community Property: Limits on Managerial Power; Creditors Rights

| ComProp-10 / pdf-10

 

4/8

 

477-539

 

Inception and Termination of the Marital Community: Lawful Marriage; Putative Relationship; Nonmarital Partners | ComProp-11 / pdf-11

 

4/15

 

541-609

 

Property Distribution at Dissolution;

Introduction to Quasi-Community Property | ComProp-12 / pdf-12

 

4/22

 

611-699

 

Property Distribution at Death; Choice of Law at Dissolution and Death; Quasi-Community Property revisited

| ComProp-13 / pdf-13

 

4/29

 

 

 

COURSE REVIEW

 

5/4

 

 

 

FINAL EXAM – Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.

                                                                                                                                                           

                        ~ Additional reading will be assigned when necessary to develop a concept of the course. ~