Wright

BACKGROUND

Our understanding of the background of this case is limited. The record Green has provided, even after the addition of the documents Green and Wright each submitted in motions to augment the record, contains only a subset of the documents filed during the three years of litigation of this case, and does not contain any reporter’s transcripts or other substitute records of the oral proceedings at any of the hearings.2 As best we can glean, Wright and Green own a duplex together in Oakland as tenants in common, with Wright owning 10 percent and Green owning 90 percent. Wright filed a complaint for partition of the property by sale in March 2022. In November 2023, the trial court granted Wright’s motion for interlocutory judgment and ordered that the property be partitioned by sale. Green appealed. This court issued a writ of supersedeas and noted the parties’ apparent agreement that the UPHPA governed the partition of the property. (Wright v. Green (March 28, 2024, A169396.) The parties then stipulated and the trial court ordered that the case would be determined by the statutes providing for partition as modified by the UPHPA. The parties’ stipulation further provided…