California Partition Law Blog
The Uniform Partition of Heirs Act is a new law that changes the procedure for partitions. A partition action is a court-ordered process where a property owner forces a sale of jointly owned real estate. Essentially, a partition action exists to allow people who own real estate together to take their share of the equity and go their separate ways.
With the price of California’s real estate ever-increasing, the Legislature recognized the importance of keeping property within the family and decided to adopt and enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Act.
The importance of inherited property cannot be understated. It is the key to advancing inter-generational wealth, allowing families to build off a stable foundation, free from the expensive and stressful process of buying property in California.
Yes. Co-owners of property are entitled to certain rights, namely, the right to possess and use the property as they see fit. But sometimes, things do not work out with the other owners. 
While litigation guarantees are recommended in a lot of contested real estate issues in court, it is not required in a 
Yes. In California, you have a right to recover attorney’s fees by statute. But that doesn’t mean that you can recover 100% of your fees, even in 
Yes. Partnership property is subject to partition on the dissolution, accounting, and wind-up of partnership matters, just like other types of property. As real estate presents unique issues, however, there are many important things to know about the process to ensure that it is done correctly. The purpose of this blog post is to address some of the issues involved with partitioning property belonging to a partnership.
Yes. A party may be able to receive credits and/or offsets for upgrading a property in a partition action under many circumstances. In a 
Partition by a private sale is a method of selling jointly owned property, either by joint tenants or tenants in common, under the court’s supervision via a court order or a court-ordered referee. 
Partition receivers and partition referees serve very similar roles in partition lawsuits. Their roles are to act as a third party with no ties to any of the co-owners interests in property via a partition lawsuit and to help the court and the judge to distribute the property or proceeds from the sale of the property fairly and equitably. Read on to find out the important differences between the two. 
When there is a court-ordered