Sepulvado v. Sepulvado

KNOLL, Judge.

In this community property case, we are called upon to decide whether the trial court erred in classifying a pickup truck as a community asset even though the funds used to purchase it during marriage were derived from the husband’s settlement of a worker’s compensation claim which pre-dat-ed the marriage.

The trial court considered the pickup truck as a community asset because it found it impossible to determine, without further documentation, what were separate funds.

Although the record is not well developed, we were able to glean the following facts. Leonard Sepulvado and…