Cohen v. Frey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding wife’s right to partition waived because she previously agreed husband alone had right to live in or sell house as he chose
• construing the decree’s language in the context of the family court’s duty to equitably distribute the community property
• explaining “partition is a statutory procedure and, absent an agreement between the parties to voluntarily divide the property, any remedy must comply with the statutory scheme”
• noting partition statutes provide for sale of common ownership property incapable of partition
• a decree is ambiguous if it \can reasonably be construed to have more than one meaning\
• a decree’s language is construed in the context of established community property law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).