How to Use community property in a Sentence

community property

noun
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  • The same is true of the home sale if the friend lives in a community property state.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2023
  • With two or more children, the spouse gets all of the community property and one-third of the separate property, with the children sharing the rest.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2023
  • In community property states, both halves of the property get this step up.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The ruling paved the way for his ex-wife to seek half the team under California’s community property law.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Feb. 2018
  • In community property states such as California, though, both her half and yours get this step up in tax basis.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
  • In the movie, the success of Roslyn's schools, which raises parents' self-esteem and community property values, leads to scarce oversight of its finances.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2020
  • When a guardian of the estate is ordered for a ward who is married, then the spouse is supposed to turn over half of the community property to the guardian, including bank accounts and investment accounts.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The main issue in the divorce case was a community property dispute, and his ex-wife was a multimillionaire, Bruno said.
    — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Colonists paid fees and membership dues and in return would get 5 acres, a house and the use of community property, such as horses and agricultural machinery.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The statute conspicuously omits any reference to Texas community property law and how it must be addressed to make a TOD deed work for a married couple.
    — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2020
  • In Texas, a married person owns his separate property and a one-half share of community property.
    — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • When the will is silent, then it is interpreted as disposing of all the community property – including the surviving spouse’s share – and that means the surviving spouse is forced to make an election.
    — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • In Alaska, spouses have the option to make their assets community property.
    — Aviva Pinto, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The lawyer clearly outlines the steps to take to make sure divorce expenses are covered via community property during a divorce: The date of separation has to be clearly marked via a two part test.
    — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 16 June 2020
  • Children, for instance, are in part viewed as community property essential to ensure the group's survival.
    — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The Bezoses are married in Washington, a community property state, and experts say his entire fortune—as much as $140 billion—could be split right down the middle.
    — Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, 10 Apr. 2019
  • The same holds true for community and quasi-community property.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
  • In fact, Pennsylvania became a community property state for at least three months.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • After that, any expenses incurred come out of community property: like, for example, a down payment on a house in La Jolla that one person never intends to live in.
    — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 16 June 2020
  • Both Washington state, where Microsoft is based, and California, where the couple have a home, are community property states.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 4 May 2021
  • Can personal property, such as stocks and bonds, also be held as community property with right of survivorship?
    — Christopher A. Combs, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2023
  • Is this to be considered community property with my husband?
    — Liz Weston, latimes.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Colonists paid an initiation fee, a membership fee and monthly dues and in return would get five acres and a house and the use of community property, such as horses, wagons and agricultural machinery.
    — Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
  • The organization was charged with creating a first-class museum, and only a week after his death in 1964, his widow left her portion of their community property to the Foundation as well.
    — Steven Lindsey, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Joint revocable trusts, which are common in community property states like Texas, are the subject of ongoing debate.
    — Dallas News, 23 May 2021
  • Include the last four digits of account numbers, approximate value and amount of money owed, and also notate whether the item is separate or community property.
    — Dallas News, 13 May 2021
  • In most of them, including Arizona, the community-property principle extends to debt: creditors can seize the community property of both spouses, or even garnish their wages, to collect on the debts of one.
    — Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022
  • Wright, 56, and Giraudet, 38, have no community property, according to the document.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Only Texas and eight other states follow community property laws.
    — Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2022
  • For example, most casebooks now in talking about community property and income splitting, talk about gender.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023

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