Marriage of Vivian CA6

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellant Thomas J. Vivian and respondent Cheryl E. Vivian were married for more than 22 years.1 In 2013, Cheryl filed a petition for dissolution of marriage. At issue in the present appeal is the trial court’s order denying Thomas’s claim for reimbursement pursuant to Family Code section 2640. Thomas contends that the order should be reversed because the trial court erred in determining that he did not make contributions of separate property to the acquisition of the parties’ community property house.

1 For purposes of clarity and not of disrespect, we will refer to the parties by their first names. (See Rubenstein v. Rubenstein (2000) 81 Cal.App.4th 1131, 1136, fn. 1.) For the reasons stated below, we determine that the order is nonappealable. We will therefore dismiss the appeal without reaching the merits.

II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In January 2013, Cheryl filed a petition for dissolution of marriage. In May 2013, Thomas filed a request for an order determining that he was entitled to reimbursement for the more than $300,000 his parents had contributed to the acquisition of the community property house. Thomas claimed that the contribution was an…