Marriage of Tsatryan CA2/7

INTRODUCTION

In May 2015 the family court entered a judgment of dissolution of Arthur and Polina1 Tsatryan’s marriage and found their residence was community property. The court subsequently awarded Polina 100 percent of the property after finding Arthur breached his fiduciary duties to Polina by executing seven deeds of trust conveying security interests in the property to his relatives on the eve of the dissolution trial, substantially encumbering all equity in the property. In August 2016 Polina filed a complaint for fraudulent transfer and declaratory relief against Arthur and the transferees, and a summons issued in June 2017. Polina served the summons and complaint on the transferees in July 2017, and the family court entered judgments against the transferees, voiding their deeds of trust. We dismissed Arthur’s appeal from these judgments for lack of standing in In re Marriage of Tsatryan (April 18, 2022, B305927) (nonpub. opn.). However, we subsequently vacated the default judgment entered against transferee Vyacheslav Shirinyan due to defective service of the summons and complaint. (See In re Marriage of Tsatryan (Sept. 22, 2022, B311072) [nonpub. opn.].) Days after we…