Life insurance policy on husband's life obtained by husband during marriage and paid for with community property funds, naming wife as owner and beneficiary, must be characterized as wife's separate property under form of title presumption

Bounds v. Superior Court, defines what the legislature meant by the word “takes” in Welf & I C §15610.30(a)(1): “Financial abuse” of an elder occurs when a person “[t]akes, secretes, appropriates, obtains, or retains real or personal property of an elder.”

This article examines the decision in Holmes v. Summer where the court held that a sellers broker "had a duty to disclose... liens before the buyers signed... [an] agreement." The article discusses the conflict between the duty of confidentiality and the new duty of disclosure to the other side

This article discusses the addition of CCP Section 580e to the current anti-deficiency statutes, the kinds of borrowers protected and lenders affected. The article coves the new Section 580e exceptions and the protection it provides in short sales