Marriage of Yang CA4/1

DISCUSSION

Under Family Code section 2550, the trial court must divide the community estate of the parties equally. To achieve this equal division, “trial courts possess broad discretion to determine the manner in which marital

3 property is divided.” (In re Marriage of Cream (1993) 13 Cal.App.4th 81, 88.) “One or more of the following methods of division may be used: (1) in kind, (2) asset distribution or cash out, (3) sale and division of proceeds, or (4) conversion to tenancy in common where the sale of the family home is deferred pursuant to [Family Code] section 4700.10.” (Ibid.) We evaluate this order directing the sale of community property for an abuse of discretion. (In re Marriage of Oliverez (2019) 33 Cal.App.5th 298, 309.) “[I]t is generally accepted that the appropriate test of abuse of discretion is whether or not the trial court exceeded the bounds of reason . . . [and] when two or more inferences can reasonably be deduced from the facts, a reviewing court lacks power to substitute its deductions for those of the trial court.” (In re Marriage of Connolly (1979) 23 Cal.3d 590, 598 (Connolly).) In arguing that the trial court abused its discretion in ordering that…