Brown v. Brown

Defendant husband appeals from an interlocutory judgment of divorce rendered in favor of plaintiff-respondent Erma Marie Brown. His sole contention is that the trial court erred in attempting to make an immediately effective division of the community property of the parties by means of the interlocutory judgment.

The operative facts are simple and undisputed. The community property of the parties included certain household furnishings and 30,000 shares of a closely held California corporation known as Western Stamping, Inc., registered in the name of the husband. The wife sued for divorce,…