CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Community Property Issues
......Division of C/P
.........Default - Failure to List in Petition
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Listing property to be divided in default dissolution in opposition to other party's request for relief from default gives sufficient notice.

Default judgment of dissolution based on petition which prays for property division "as provided by law" is not void, even though judgment awarded more than Family Law Act allows.

Default judgment awarding furniture to H, when W's annulment complaint prayed that furniture be awarded to W, is void as judgment in excess of prayer.

Default judgments in excess of prayer.