(California Court of Appeal) - In an ex-husband's appeal of the trial court's decision concluding that he,alone, was financially responsible for defending and settling a claim brought by a third party seeking, or among other things,rescission of an agreement to sell the trade he owned and operated during the marriage, the trial court's order is reversed where the liability arising from the claim for rescission and other relief initiated by the third party was a community obligation omitted from the marital dissolution judgment that divided the couple's assets and obligations, and subject to division under Family Code section 2556. Thus,ex-wife was obligated to pay half the cost of settling the litigation.
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