Estate of Blair

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing trial court 28 finding of a transmutation of joint tenancy property to 1 community property when one spouse dies during the dissolution 2 proceeding
• court finding it unlikely that either spouse would desire “to make the macabre gamble” of being the survivor if one party died pending dissolution.
• “[I]f property is held as community property, one half belongs to the surviving spouse on the death of the other and the remaining half is subject to the testamentary disposition of the decedent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).