Lopez v. Lopez

Summary

The court affirmed the divorce decree, holding that the district court could distribute community property held in the spouses' revocable inter vivos trust without joining the trust as a separate party. The court also upheld the characterization of disputed properties as community property because Maria did not overcome the community-property presumption with clear and convincing tracing evidence, and it upheld exclusion of the alleged premarital agreement because it was unauthenticated, undisclosed, untranslated, and prejudicial. The court further declined to require reassignment of the case because the judge's comments reflected views formed during the litigation rather than disqualifying extrajudicial bias.