Griffin v. Griffin

SWANSTROM, Judge.

In this appeal we take the third judicial look at the division of property in a divorce case. The magistrate who tried the property issues determined that a residence called the Vallejo property was the separate property of the husband. The wife appealed to the district court contending the magistrate should have found the Vallejo property to be community property, either under the theory that it had been acquired and improved largely by the expenditure of community funds and the labor of the parties, or because its character had been “transmuted” from separate to community.…