Altmeyer v. Hava

Citations

• 11 Teiss. 229
• 1914 La. App. LEXIS 55

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>Property purchased during the marriage forms part of the community property, whether the title be taken in the name of the husband or of the wife or of both. But this presumption may be rebutted.</p> <p>When the act of sale to the wife declares that the price was paid with money of the wife, and when the husband joins in that declaration, and when the wife swears that she paid both the cash and the credit portions with the money donated to her, and when her testimony is corroborated by her own checks corresponding in amount with the capital and interest of the credit portions, the presumption of the law will have-been rebutted' and the property declared to be the separate property of the wife.</p>