Marriage of Shepard CA6

DISCUSSION

Husband contends that the order requiring him to pay wife an $84,420 equalizing payment resulted in an unequal division of the community property. He accordingly requests that we reverse the judgment and remand the matter for an equal division of the community property. He has failed, however, to provide this court with copies of all the documents entered into evidence at the trial. “Once the court determines the assets and liabilities of the community estate, it must value them and make an equal division of the estate.” (In re Marriage of Finby (2013) 222 Cal.App.4th 977, 984.) The trial court “possesses broad discretion to determine the manner in which community property is awarded in order to accomplish an equal allocation.” (In re Marriage of Andresen (1994) 28 Cal.App.4th 873, 880.) “If the circumstances warrant, the court may award one or more items of the property to one party and require that party to make an equalizing payment to the other.” (Ibid.) “A fundamental rule of appellate review is that ‘ “[a] judgment or order of the lower court is presumed correct. All intendments and presumptions are indulged to support it on matters as to which the record is…