Cisse

DISCUSSION

Cisse argues in his short opening brief that a bankruptcy petition filed by a “Co-Owner” of the property, Marlyatou Bah, stayed the proceedings in the trial court and precluded the judgment against him. Cisse did not make this argument in the trial court, and the record shows the property at issue was held only in his name, “as his sole and separate property.” Cisse also does not explain who Bah is. Because he did not make this argument in the trial court, it was waived for purposes of appeal. (Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Oracle Corp. (2021) 65 Cal.App.5th 506, 548.) Further, there is no evidence in the appellate record to support reversal based on a bankruptcy proceeding for an unknown

1 Bank of America was dismissed from the case after a successful motion for summary judgment on July 12, 2019, and is not a party to this appeal. 3 individual. (See Kendall v. Barker (1988) 197 Cal.App.3d 619, 625 [“ ‘The appellate court is . . . confined in its review to the proceedings which took place in the court below and are brought up for review in a properly prepared record on appeal.’ [Citation.] ‘Statements of alleged fact in the briefs on appeal which are not contained in the…