United States Ninth Circuit

California's transmutation statute, Cal. Fam. Code section 852(a), does not apply when realty is transferred from a third party to spouses as joint tenants. The property at issue is held in joint tenancy rather than as community property.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/15/2003
• Decided 06/20/2003
• Published 06/20/2003

Judges

• Before CANBY, KLEINFELD, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Byron Lee Lynch, Redding, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stanley Zlotoff, San Jose, CA, for the appellee.