§ 760 Marital Property Ownership Rules

• •If you get married and live in this state, most things you buy or earn belong to both of you.
• •It doesn’t matter if it’s a house, a car, or money—if you got it while married, it’s shared.
• •This rule applies unless another law says something different.

A husband buys a car with his paycheck while married.

The car isn’t just his—it belongs to both him and his wife because they were married when he bought it.