California Court of Appeal

Trial court's order declaring plaintiff a putative spouse on the ground that the parties' marriage was invalid because the husband already had a wife when he married plaintiff is affirmed as, applying the unambiguous language of Family Code section 2251, the parties' union is a putative marriage and the property acquired during that union is quasi-marital property subject to division as community property.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/25/2009
• Published 11/25/2009

Judges

• McADAMS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Caleb S. Baskin, Heidi Simonson, Baskin & Grant, LLP, Attorney for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dolly Ares, Attorney for Respondent.