Lei

BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs’ dispute with Demas and his family members has a lengthy history.2 It originates in part from a judgment obtained by Charles Li in a professional negligence lawsuit against Demas, and Li’s subsequent discovery that Demas had transferred residential property located on 23rd Avenue in San Francisco (the property) to various limited liability companies and to family members to thwart Li’s efforts to enforce the judgment. In 2014, Li filed a complaint to set aside the transfers for actual and constructive fraud, and he obtained a judgment against several defendants — including Demas, Tina, and Demas’s father, Cheuk Tin Yan — setting aside the transfers and declaring Demas the sole owner of all legal and equitable title or interest in the property (Li action). This court affirmed the judgment, holding there was no evidence Demas’s parents gave their son reasonably equivalent value in exchange for an ownership interest in the property. (Li, supra, A149849.)

2 Our factual summary is not intended to be exhaustive. We incorporate by reference our decisions in three unpublished opinions in prior appeals arising out of Demas and Tina’s conduct: Li v. Chiu (May 31,…