Marriage of Strulyov CA6

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. The Prior Appeal The prior appeal in this case addressed three trial court rulings challenged by Eugene and affirmed two of the three, reversing and remanding on the limited issue of the division of the Google stock. (In re Marriage of Strulyov (July 27, 2023, H050115) [nonpub. opn.].)2 Specifically, in Strulyov, we upheld the trial court’s determination under Family Code3 section 2556 that the Google stock was an omitted asset in the November 2019 judgment of dissolution (2019 judgment). Nevertheless, we concluded that the trial court had abused its discretion by failing to address Eugene’s argument that there was good cause to order the Google stock should not be divided equally, based on his assertion that Katia had received the equivalent value for her share of the Google stock in the division of assets under the 2019 judgment. We remanded “for the limited purpose of a determination by the trial court whether the interests of justice require an unequal division of the Google stock” under sections 2556 and 2550. We expressly refrained from dictating how the trial court should exercise its discretion with respect to the division of the…