How to Use community property in a Sentence

community property

noun

• The same is true of the home sale if the friend lives in a community property state.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 12 Feb. 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
• 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
• 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
• For example, issues related to kids and division of community property require that your spouse mutually agree to the terms in order to file your final judgment.
  — Amy Sohn, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
• In a settlement agreement approved earlier this week, his wife will be able to keep 14 of those guns after asserting community property interest.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• In community property states, however, both halves of the couple’s community property get the step up with the first death, said Los Angeles estate planning attorney Burton Mitchell.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024