Discover the differences between common law and community property states in marital property division during divorce. Learn what counts as marital property.

Community property law applies in determining whether property and the income it produces is community property or separate property if (1) in the case of income from ...

I’ve returned again and again (and again) to the subject of property rights in information. As regular readers know, a 2018 Supreme Court case called Carpenter v. United States posed the question of ...

Investors have always chased safety. For centuries, gold has been the go-to haven when markets become rocky. Real estate has held similar appeal, especially in space-starved cities, while government ...

The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...

Property division in a divorce depends on whether the state follows community property or common law rules. In community property states, most assets acquired during the marriage belong equally to ...