MacHado

MacHado v. MacHado

Good Law
1918 Cal. App. LEXIS 564·36 Cal. App. 646·172 P. 1124
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 30, 1918Civ. No. 2375.California1,239 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

This action was begun in 1913. Plaintiff had judgment for divorce on the ground of cruelty, and included in the judgment also was a settlement of property rights, to which she objected, and she appealed from the latter part of the judgment and was granted a new trial of the issues regarding property. The superior court retried those issues and again adjusted the property rights of the parties. In this latter judgment it determined that what is known as the Guth ranch was separate property of the defendant, and what is known as the Alviso ranch was partly separate and partly community property, and awarded to the defendant as his separate property 40/63 of the Alviso ranch, and, determining that 23/63 thereof was community property, gave the defendant an even half of that. The court also added a provision to the judgment that the defendant should pay fifty dollars a month to the plaintiff for the period of six months, and set aside all previous orders regarding alimony and support for plaintiff. It also decreed to be void a homestead which the plaintiff claimed on the Alviso ranch. The plaintiff appealed from this judgment on the fifteenth day of November, 1915. Thereafter, upon…

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