How to Use community property in a Sentence

community property

noun
  • The same is true of the home sale if the friend lives in a community property state.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2023
  • In community property states, both halves of the property get this step up.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
  • In community property states such as California, both halves of the house get this step-up.
    — Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Her state may be a community property state; her husband may have to pay maintenance and will surely have to pay child support.
    — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2024
  • At least one half of the property — and both halves in community property states — get a new value for tax purposes when a spouse dies.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • In community property states such as California, though, both her half and yours get this step up in tax basis.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
  • But in community property states, the rules can be more complicated.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • The same holds true for community and quasi-community property.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The ruling paved the way for his ex-wife to seek half the team under California’s community property law.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Feb. 2018
  • In a community property state, the community assets and income of the non-debtor spouse can be liable for the judgments of the debtor spouse.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In community property states such as California, both halves of the property may get that step-up.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
  • With two or more children, the spouse gets all of the community property and one-third of the separate property, with the children sharing the rest.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, Pennsylvania became a community property state for at least three months.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Children, for instance, are in part viewed as community property essential to ensure the group's survival.
    — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Can personal property, such as stocks and bonds, also be held as community property with right of survivorship?
    — Christopher A. Combs, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2023
  • And remember, California is a community property state; what’s mine is yours and all that.
    — Lawrence Hodge / Jalopnik, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Only Texas and eight other states follow community property laws.
    — Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2022
  • In Alaska, spouses have the option to make their assets community property.
    — Aviva Pinto, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • In states with community property laws State law can also affect who is responsible for unpaid debt.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • In Texas, a married person owns his separate property and a one-half share of community property.
    — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • In community property states like California, their spouse may even be entitled to half of their empire.
    — Morgan Mouchette, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The main issue in the divorce case was a community property dispute, and his ex-wife was a multimillionaire, Bruno said.
    — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • For example, most casebooks now in talking about community property and income splitting, talk about gender.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The government added that community property isn’t exempt from criminal debt.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • In the movie, the success of Roslyn's schools, which raises parents' self-esteem and community property values, leads to scarce oversight of its finances.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Colonists paid fees and membership dues and in return would get 5 acres, a house and the use of community property, such as horses and agricultural machinery.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The third problem that gets overlooked with estate planning occurs with people who live in marital property or community property states.
    — Ty Bernicke, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Joint revocable trusts, which are common in community property states like Texas, are the subject of ongoing debate.
    — Dallas News, 23 May 2021
  • When a guardian of the estate is ordered for a ward who is married, then the spouse is supposed to turn over half of the community property to the guardian, including bank accounts and investment accounts.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Spouses in community property states may also have some liability for remaining credit card debt.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 23 June 2026

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