
A domestic violence restraining order and a civil money judgment serve different purposes. When one spouse obtains a civil damages judgment against the other for[…]

Expert witnesses are frequently used to value businesses, trace property, analyze income, or evaluate retirement benefits. When a retained expert appears for deposition without having[…]

An expert deposition is intended to identify the opinions the witness expects to give at trial. When the expert later changes a supposedly final opinion[…]

Personal-injury damages may be one spouse’s separate property when the underlying claim arose outside the marital period recognized for community-property purposes. If community funds or[…]

Many property transfers between spouses or former spouses incident to divorce do not immediately result in recognized gain or loss. That does not mean the[…]
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