Cockrill v. Cockrill

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining the increase in value of separate property remains separate unless the increase is \a result of the work effort of the community\
• stating, in such circumstances, “the burden is upon the spouse who contends that the increase is also separate property to prove that the increase is the result of the inherent value of the [business] itself and is not the product of the work effort of the community”
• The burden of proof is on the party asserting an interest in the other spouse’s property.
• “[T]he separate property of the spouse remains separate. It is merely the profits or the increase in value of that property during marriage which may become community property . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).