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Valuing Community Property Businesses: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Louisiana Law, Sally Brown Richardson Sep 2020

Valuing Community Property Businesses: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Louisiana Law, Sally Brown Richardson

Louisiana Law Review

The article discusses the law in Louisiana on the valuation of community property businesses in divorce proceedings and other topics like fair market value and the ruling by the Louisiana Second Circuit of Appeal in the 2003 case Ellington v. Ellington.


The Illusion Of Equality: The Failure Of The Community Property Reform To Achieve Management Equality, Elizabeth Carter Jan 2015

The Illusion Of Equality: The Failure Of The Community Property Reform To Achieve Management Equality, Elizabeth Carter

Journal Articles

The article focuses on the equal management laws in the community property reform for the well-being and future prosperity of the family. Topics discussed include separate property regime and the community property regime in the U.S., examines the history of the reform era and argues that equality was not the primary goal of the legal reform and examines how spouses actually managed their money in the pre-1970s era.


Community Property In Bankruptcy: Laws Of Unintended Consequences, Margaret Dee Mcgarity Nov 2011

Community Property In Bankruptcy: Laws Of Unintended Consequences, Margaret Dee Mcgarity

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Opting In, Opting Out: Autonomy In The Community Property States, Charlotte K. Goldberg Nov 2011

Opting In, Opting Out: Autonomy In The Community Property States, Charlotte K. Goldberg

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


How Community Property Jurisdictions Can Avoid Being Lost In Cyberspace, Sally Brown Richardson Nov 2011

How Community Property Jurisdictions Can Avoid Being Lost In Cyberspace, Sally Brown Richardson

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Community Property V. The Elective Share, Terry L. Turnipseed Nov 2011

Community Property V. The Elective Share, Terry L. Turnipseed

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Distribution Of Marital Assets In Community Property Jurisdictions: Equitable Doesn't Equal Equal, James R. Ratner Nov 2011

Distribution Of Marital Assets In Community Property Jurisdictions: Equitable Doesn't Equal Equal, James R. Ratner

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Should Separate Property Gradually Become Community Property As A Marriage Continues?, J. Thomas Oldham Nov 2011

Should Separate Property Gradually Become Community Property As A Marriage Continues?, J. Thomas Oldham

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Superior Position Of The Creditor In The Community Property Regime: Has The Community Become A Mere Creditor Collection Device?, Andrea B. Carroll Jan 2007

The Superior Position Of The Creditor In The Community Property Regime: Has The Community Become A Mere Creditor Collection Device?, Andrea B. Carroll

Journal Articles

This article is a first step in an effort to critically examine the continued vitality of the community regime for regulating spousal property. Specifically, the article examines the American community property regimes in light of how they measure up against non-community property states in terms of creditor protection. The results are often surprising. The community regime grants creditors access to a variety of property for all manner of debts. For instance, the entirety of the community property, including the non-debtor spouse's wages, may be seized in some community property states for the other's premarital debts. That the non-debtor spouse has …


What You Earn Is Yours, But You Are Jointly And Severally Liable For His: A Proportionate Liability Proposal For Federal Income Taxes, John Allain Viator Nov 1997

What You Earn Is Yours, But You Are Jointly And Severally Liable For His: A Proportionate Liability Proposal For Federal Income Taxes, John Allain Viator

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Taxation Of Community Income: It Is Time For Congress To Override Poe V. Seaborn, Susan Kalinka Nov 1997

Taxation Of Community Income: It Is Time For Congress To Override Poe V. Seaborn, Susan Kalinka

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Erisa Preemption Of "Direct" And "Indirect" Community Property Interests In Pension Plans Upon The Non-Participant Spouse's Death, Grant Summers Nov 1994

Erisa Preemption Of "Direct" And "Indirect" Community Property Interests In Pension Plans Upon The Non-Participant Spouse's Death, Grant Summers

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rethinking The Classification Of Credit Acquisitions Under Louisiana's Community Property Law, Dian Tooley Arruebarrena May 1990

Rethinking The Classification Of Credit Acquisitions Under Louisiana's Community Property Law, Dian Tooley Arruebarrena

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Magee V. Amiss: The Conflict Continues Between The Public Records Doctrine And Community Property Laws, Michael David Ferachi May 1988

Magee V. Amiss: The Conflict Continues Between The Public Records Doctrine And Community Property Laws, Michael David Ferachi

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Problems In The Law Of Successions: Succession Representatives, Surviving Spouses, And Usufructuaries, Karl W. Cavanaugh Sep 1986

Problems In The Law Of Successions: Succession Representatives, Surviving Spouses, And Usufructuaries, Karl W. Cavanaugh

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reconciliation Trap: Civil Code Article 155, Zina H. Tillery Sep 1984

Reconciliation Trap: Civil Code Article 155, Zina H. Tillery

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Retroactivity Of The Repeal Of The Double Declaration Rule: Wood V. Wood, James Edwin Bailey Iii Jan 1984

Retroactivity Of The Repeal Of The Double Declaration Rule: Wood V. Wood, James Edwin Bailey Iii

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Professional Goodwill In Louisiana: An Analysis Of Its Classification, Valuation, And Partition, Eve Barrie Masinter Sep 1982

Professional Goodwill In Louisiana: An Analysis Of Its Classification, Valuation, And Partition, Eve Barrie Masinter

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Analysis And Interpretation Of The New Matrimonal Regimes Law, Lee Hargrave, Katherin Shaw Spaht Feb 1982

Analysis And Interpretation Of The New Matrimonal Regimes Law, Lee Hargrave, Katherin Shaw Spaht

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Forum Juridicum: Louisiana Counterparts To Legal And Equitable Title, Gerald Levan Aug 1981

Forum Juridicum: Louisiana Counterparts To Legal And Equitable Title, Gerald Levan

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Community Ownership Of Immovables: Bond For Deed Contracts, William L. Hearne Nov 1980

Community Ownership Of Immovables: Bond For Deed Contracts, William L. Hearne

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equal Management Revisited: 1979 Legislative Modifications Of The 1978 Matrimonial Regimes Law, Katherine S. Spaht, Cynthia Samuel Nov 1979

Equal Management Revisited: 1979 Legislative Modifications Of The 1978 Matrimonial Regimes Law, Katherine S. Spaht, Cynthia Samuel

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Interest Of The Community In A Professional Education, James Joseph Sullivan Aug 1979

The Interest Of The Community In A Professional Education, James Joseph Sullivan

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Louisiana's New Matrimonial Regime Law: Some Aspects Of The Effect On Real Estate Practice, William H. Mcclendon Iii Feb 1979

Louisiana's New Matrimonial Regime Law: Some Aspects Of The Effect On Real Estate Practice, William H. Mcclendon Iii

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Interim Study Year, Katherine S. Spaht Feb 1979

Interim Study Year, Katherine S. Spaht

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Background Of Matrimonial Regimes Revision, Katherine S. Spaht Feb 1979

Background Of Matrimonial Regimes Revision, Katherine S. Spaht

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Community Property: A Comparison Of The Systems In Washington And Louisiana, Harry M. Cross Feb 1979

Community Property: A Comparison Of The Systems In Washington And Louisiana, Harry M. Cross

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Retroactivity Provisions Of Louisiana's Equal Management Law: Interpretation And Constitutionality, Cynthia Samuel Feb 1979

The Retroactivity Provisions Of Louisiana's Equal Management Law: Interpretation And Constitutionality, Cynthia Samuel

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Appendix: Act 627 Of 1978 Feb 1979

Appendix: Act 627 Of 1978

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


"Management" Of Community Assets Under Act 627, George L. Bilbe Feb 1979

"Management" Of Community Assets Under Act 627, George L. Bilbe

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.