Loaiza v. Loaiza

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that complaining party must demonstrate, based on evidence in record, that division was so unjust trial court abused its discretion
• holding husband’s post-divorce income was his separate property even though the contract contained a “guarantee clause” because husband’s right to payment under contract did not accrue until he performed his services
• noting that “waste of community assets” is factor to be considered in dividing marital estate
• noting that one spouse’s fraud on the community estate could justify an unequal division of the estate
• “A contract is ambiguous only if, after the application of established rules of construction, an agreement is still susceptible to more than one reasonable meaning”
• “A spouse is only entitled to a division of property that the community owns at the time of divorce.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).