California law is fairly straightforward with respect to premarital agreements that seek to alter community property rights in the event of a divorce. But it is unclear and unsettled with respect to those agreements that seek to limit or waive spousal support. Although California prohibits courts from enforcing premarital waivers of spousal support if it would be unconscionable to do so at the time of enforcements, courts have not articulated a clear standard for what that means. California made its first attempt to do so in In re Marriage of Facter. This Article considers that decision in illustrating how current law, which does not clearly define unconscionability, allows courts to arbitrarily decide when such a waiver is fair. This Artic...
Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between one man and one woman is va...
Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between one man and one woman is va...
Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between one man and one woman is va...
Part II of this article presents an overview of premarital agreement rules related to procedural and...
This Comment examines California Assembly Bill 25 which grants certain civic rights to state-registe...
On January 1, 1980, California, in enacting Civil Code sections 4600 and 4600.5, became the first st...
Amends California Constitution to provide that a marriage between a man and a woman is the only lega...
The article focuses on unfair treatment of premarital agreements and data of the people who entered ...
This Essay analyzes the presumption against the availability of judicial enforcement for bargains be...
Eliminates a court’s ability to award and enforce spousal support during marriage, upon legal separa...
MARRIAGE. ELIMINATION OF DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP RIGHTS. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Provides that only m...
This article devotes most of its attention to the UPAA, offering analyses of its various provisions ...
Plaintiff and defendant began living together in 1964. At that time they entered into an oral agreem...
Replaces the term marriage with the term domestic partnership throughout California law, but pre...
This Comment examines the recent amendments to the California Civil Code, which require that, at div...
Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between one man and one woman is va...
Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between one man and one woman is va...
Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between one man and one woman is va...
Part II of this article presents an overview of premarital agreement rules related to procedural and...
This Comment examines California Assembly Bill 25 which grants certain civic rights to state-registe...
On January 1, 1980, California, in enacting Civil Code sections 4600 and 4600.5, became the first st...
Amends California Constitution to provide that a marriage between a man and a woman is the only lega...
The article focuses on unfair treatment of premarital agreements and data of the people who entered ...
This Essay analyzes the presumption against the availability of judicial enforcement for bargains be...
Eliminates a court’s ability to award and enforce spousal support during marriage, upon legal separa...
MARRIAGE. ELIMINATION OF DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP RIGHTS. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Provides that only m...
This article devotes most of its attention to the UPAA, offering analyses of its various provisions ...
Plaintiff and defendant began living together in 1964. At that time they entered into an oral agreem...
Replaces the term marriage with the term domestic partnership throughout California law, but pre...
This Comment examines the recent amendments to the California Civil Code, which require that, at div...
Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between one man and one woman is va...
Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between one man and one woman is va...
Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between one man and one woman is va...