CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Joinder
.........Other Issues
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Absent joinder, parties to dissolution proceeding limited to H and W; parties to domestic partnership dissolution limited to the domestic partners.

No other causes of action may be joined with family law actions.

Party may seek to join another who controls or claims property subject to jurisdiction of court.

A defendant's spouse need not be joined to a lawsuit in order to find that the defendant's actions were for the benefit of the community so as to charge the c/p.

IRMO Ramirez did not require trial court to join attys. to proceedings before the motion to expunge their FLARPLs where transcript clear that neither court nor H thought the FLARPLs were expunged by the judgment.

Order vacating FLARPL was void where W’s former atty was not joined as an indispensable party, or notified of the proceeding, and thus could not be compelled to give up her interest in the FLARPL.

Joinder of Family Trust that had ownership interest in c/p residence proper.

Joinder proper where spouse alleges other spouse has illegally made gift of community funds.

Family law court permitted to determine premarital issues submitted to it by parties.

Absent joinder, court has no jurisdiction over parties other than H and W.

When family law court acquires jurisdiction over marital property, it acquires jurisdiction to determine claims of third parties related to it, provided they are accorded due process of law.

When third parties claim an interest in c/p, their claims may be heard in the family law action.

Miscellaneous non-c/p issues permitted to be decided in family law actions.