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Code of Civil Procedure § 872.210

ARTICLE 1. Complaint and Lis Pendens

Current as of September 28, 2026Code Civ. Proc., § 872.210Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 73.

(a) A partition action may be commenced and maintained by any of the following persons:

(1) A coowner of personal property.

(2) An owner of an estate of inheritance, an estate for life, or an estate for years in real property where such property or estate therein is owned by several persons concurrently or in successive estates.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), an action between spouses or putative spouses for partition of their community or quasi-community property or their quasi-marital interest in property may not be commenced or maintained under this title.