Terms Used In California Codes > Family Code > Division 4 > Part 4 - MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF MARITAL PROPERTY

• Bureau: means the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. See California Business and Professions Code 7601
• City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Government Code 20
• Community estate: includes both community property and quasi-community property. See California Family Code 63
• County: includes city and county. See California Family Code 67
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means any person authorized by a license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred to in Sections 1000 and 3600. See California Business and Professions Code 23.8
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• order: include a decree, as appropriate under the circumstances. See California Family Code 100
• person: includes any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or association. See California Government Code 7920.520
• Person: includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity. See California Family Code 105
• petition: means any petition to which a registered voter has affixed the voter's own signature. See California Government Code 7924.100
• Proceeding: includes an action. See California Family Code 110
• Property: includes real and personal property and any interest therein. See California Family Code 113
• proponent of the petition: means the following:

  California Government Code 7924.105

• public records: includes any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics. See California Government Code 7920.530
• Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by Section 297. See California Family Code 143
• writing: means any handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, photocopying, transmitting by electronic mail or facsimile, and every other means of recording upon any tangible thing any form of communication or representation, including letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols, or combinations thereof, and any record thereby created, regardless of the manner in which the record has been stored. See California Government Code 7920.545