Legal Opinion

First Community Bank v. Maureen Gaughan

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided March 31, 2017No. 14-16854PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

KORMAN, District Judge:

Larry and Kari Miller, both Arizona do-miciliaries, owned a cooperative apartment located at 2170 Jackson Street in San Francisco, California. The co-op was held in each of their names, as husband and wife. First Community Bank, a judgment creditor of Larry Miller, obtained a lien against the Millers’ co-op.

Under Arizona law, the co-op would be treated as community property. See A.R.S. § 25-211. If Arizona law applies, FCB’s judgment lien could not be enforced against the co-op, because the judgment upon which the lien was based arose from a guaranty signed by…

2Cases cited19 opinions

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3Cited by10 opinions

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