CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Community Property Issues
......Division of C/P
.........Discretion
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Trial court has broad discretion as to method of effecting substantially equal division of property.

Award of residence to H and income property to W affirmed, irrespective of W's having never managed income producing property.

Courts have discretion as to how the equal division is accomplished.

Trial court’s discretion to fashion equitable remedy to division of c/p.

Once decedent transferred life insurance policy to irrevocable life insurance trust, he no longer had ownership interest in the policy and it was not subject to creditors' claims; no implied revocation.