California Court of Appeal

Spouses must be "living separate and apart" in order to separate, under Family Code section 771(a), and such a finding requires contemporaneous conjunction of intent to separate and conduct evidencing that intent, including some objectively ascertainable form of physical separation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/15/2002
• Published 10/15/2002

Judges

• WUNDERLICH, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Paige Leslie Wickland, Esq., Fancher & Wickland, San Francisco, Susan M. Chung, Esq., Chung & Romano, San Jose, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William L. Dok, Esq., Dok, Levy & Perrin, San Jose, E. Elizabeth Summers, Esq., Bien & Summers LLP, Novato, for Respondent.