LAW265

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY PROPERTY focuses specifically on CaliforniaCommunity Property law, as it ispracticed inCalifornia courts. Course materials cover theCalifornia Family Code as interpreted byCalifornia courts of appeal and the CaliforniaSupreme Court. Topics include propertyacquisition during marriage, propertycharacterization at dissolution, fiduciary dutiesbetween spouses, registered domestic partnership,nonmarried cohabitancy, contracting betweenintimates before and during marriage, theintersection between domestic violence andcommunity property law, and control of geneticand intangible materials. The goals of this classare to prepare students for a bar exam questionon the topic and to introduce students to thebody of California law that governs propertyacquisition during the continuance of an intimaterelationship. The class is lecture-based andproblem-centered; the problems incorporate atrial practice component.