Character, Value and Division of Property
Representative Cases
- Presided over many cases involving the character, value, and division of property, with issues involving:
- Stock options/employment benefits
- Transmutation
- Presumption Of undue influence/breach of fiduciary duties
- Real property (residential, rentals, commercial)
- Business entities (cases involving law practices, dental practices, medical practices, C-Corps, S-Corps, working ranches, construction companies, and many others)
- Retirement benefits
- Omitted assets
- High asset cases
- Debts and obligations
- Presided over case involving Gilmore rights where UC professor didn’t want to retire, and his spouse wanted to collect her community share of the retirement benefits. Case involved two well-respected actuaries. UC Retirement System did not recognize Gilmore benefits and would not pay spouse her share directly from plan. Husband was ordered to pay spouse directly. Subsequently, the UC Retirement System began recognizing Gilmore rights and paying spouses directly.
- Death of spouse cases
- When death occurred before termination of marital status
- When death occurred after termination of marital status