Dividing Property

A CJER Online Self-Study Course

Once you have characterized property in a family law proceeding, you must value and divide the community property, confirm ownership of separate property, assign debts, and determine any right to reimbursements. This online course will give you the basic knowledge you need to begin dividing property.

This course is one in a series of online courses for family court bench officers. Other available courses are:

• Calendar Management in Family Court
• Custody and Visitation
• Determining Income
• Child and Spousal Support
• Characterizing Property

These courses supplement CJER's live family law courses and benchguides.

Learning Goals

As a result of this course, you will be able to:

• State the general rules for dividing community property and confirming separate property
• Give examples of exceptions to the equal division rule
• Define the fair market value of community assets
• Determine dates for valuing hypothetical community assets and liabilities
• Apply different methods in dividing hypothetical community assets
• Discuss methods for dividing retirement benefits
• Summarize how to assign debts incurred before, during, or after marriage
• Apply reimbursement guidelines to hypothetical facts

We estimate that the course will take approximately two hours to complete, depending on your experience.

This course contains various activities and quizzes. These are training exercises for your own practice only; no record is made of any of your responses to the course activities or quizzes.

Your feedback is important to us for the development of future courses. After finishing this course, please take a few minutes to complete the evaluation form. After completing the evaluation, you may print a certificate of completion. This course will help satisfy your continuing education needs.

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