Seals v. Seals

Max Seals appeals a judgment awarding undistributed community property to Doris Seals, his former wife. In 1975, Doris Seals filed a petition for dissolution against Max Seals. In 1976, a decree of dissolution was entered. Within 4 months, Doris Seals filed a partition action, alleging that certain property had not been disclosed in the dissolution action.

The trial court in the partition action found that Max Seals had breached his fiduciary duty to his wife and had willfully and fraudulently failed to disclose to her and to the trial court the existence of community property in the…