Marriage of Gerow v. Covill

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• holding that “the revenue- 7 BROOKSBY v. BROOKSBY Kiley, J., Dissenting producing clients” of community business that “were developed through Husband’s previous clientele and associations acquired during the marriage” were a community asset
• explaining “that a fiduciary relationship between spouses does exist with respect to community assets,” and the “[r]emoval of community assets without spousal notice and/or approval can constitute a breach of that duty”
• husband fraudulently conveyed the assets of a sole proprietorship to defraud his wife of her interest
• the nature of the asset does not transmute “by merely changing the form of its ownership through incorporation”
• “[T]he ‘goodwill’ developed in connection with Husband’s sole proprietorship during the marriage is 5 BROOKSBY v. BROOKSBY Decision of the Court considered a community asset.”
• “The rules regarding disclosure are born out of a policy that the facts and issues to be litigated must be fairly exposed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).