CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Community Property Issues
......Specific Assets
.........Furniture/Antiques
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Spouse may not sell c/p furnishings without written consent of other spouse.

Former Civil Code section 4800.2 applied to furniture. FMV of used furniture is less than purchase price.

Where parties each retain furniture and fail to introduce evidence of value at trial, court may consider each portion to be of equal value.

Furniture properly valued at resale value, not replacement cost. (Ore. case.)

Court may reject "give-or-take" valuations on personal property. (Mont. case.)

H may not even encumber his 1/2 of c/p furniture without W's written consent.

Furniture in storage still protected against unilateral disposition.

Furniture value based on current sales value, not replacement or original cost.

General discussion of valuing antique furniture in dissolutions.