CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Community Property Issues
......Valuation
.........Court's Discretion
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Substantial evidence supported finding wife owed $171,099 on a line of credit against house.

Failure to set forth calculations by which court arrived at different value from those presented by parties not error.

Court may not arbitrarily value business so as to equalize property division.

Goodwill finding which averaged experts' opinions not abuse of discretion.

Trial ct. has broad discretion to value and divide community property.