Ticor Title Company of Cal. v. Minkovitch CA2/5

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant Yan Minkovitch (Yan) appeals from a judgment following a court trial, challenging various rulings made by the trial court. We affirm.

II. BACKGROUND

A. Underlying Proceedings

We recite the underlying proceedings as described in our prior opinion (Ticor Title Co. of California v. Minkovitch (July 20, 2022, B312634) (Ticor Title I) [nonpub. opn.].) Yan and Lina Minkovitch (Lina) married in 2007. In 2013, they purchase a home located in Tarzana (the property) and requested that the seller transfer title to Lina, as a “married woman, as her sole and separate property.” Yan then signed an interspousal transfer grant deed transferring his interest in the property to Lina as her sole and separate property.1 (Ticor Title I, supra, B312634.) In 2016, while Yan and Lina were in the midst of divorce proceedings, Lina decided to sell the property and opened escrow with Ticor Title Company of California (Ticor Title). Because it had received competing claims for the property’s sale proceeds, Ticor Title filed a complaint in interpleader, naming among

In a related family law proceeding, Yan testified that he signed the interspousal transfer grant…