Legal Opinion
In Re Marriage of Barnes
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 26, 1978No. Civ. 41908PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
RATTIGAN, J.
Probate Code section 205 provides that a surviving spouse is personally liable for the debts of his or her deceased spouse which are chargeable against their community property. This appeal involves problems presented when a decedent’s former wife invoked the statute, to collect unpaid spousal support due her under a judgment which had dissolved their marriage, by obtaining a writ of execution on the judgment and having it levied on the community property of the decedent and his second wife.
In or before 1969, Marston Barnes (hereinafter Marston) brought an action for the…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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3Cited by3 opinions
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