Direct Capital Corp. v. Brooks

*1170Disregarding procedural asides raised by the parties, this appeal turns on the distinction between "necessaries of life" and "common necessaries of life" as those phrases are used in different parts of Family Code section 914,1 and which of the two governs when a person is or is not liable for a debt incurred by a spouse. Here, the trial court found that a debt incurred by an attorney-spouse for office computer equipment was for the necessaries of life for that particular marriage, in part because that spouse's law practice generated community property income. We shall uphold this finding.

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