Davis v. Davis

Nahmias, Justice.

In 1996, the parties divorced in Louisiana, a community property state. The divorce decree did not partition the marital estate, leaving each party with an undivided one-half interest in the property owned by the couple. See La. Civ. Code Ann. § 2336 (“Each spouse owns a present undivided one-half interest in the community property. . . .”); Wallack v. Wallack, 211 Ga. 745, 748 (88 SE2d 154) (1955) (stating, in an equity case based on an accounting, that “where community property is not disposed of in a divorce between the parties, or is not referred to in the decree, or put…