Trial court’s order declaring plaintiff a putative spouse on the ground that the parties’ marriage was invalid because the husband already had a wife when he married plaintiff is affirmed as, applying the unambiguous language of Family Code section 2251, the parties’ union is a putative marriage and the property acquired during that union is quasi-marital property subject to division as community property. 

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Appellate Information

Filed November 25, 2009

Judges

Opinion by Judge McAdams

CounselFor Appellant:   Baskin & Grant, LLP, Caleb S. Baskin, Heidi Simonson

For Appellee:  Dolly Ares

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