§ 872.210

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.

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