Nicole R. Takemoto of Hartog, Baer & Hand. Nicole R. Takemoto of Hartog, Baer & Hand. Married couples often don’t give much thought to the characterization of their property as community or separate.

We frequently represent clients who have engaged in some type of transaction with his or her spouse during the marriage that inadvertently causes them to lose certain rights to property unknowingly.

When I first began studying nuclear engineering nearly 40 years ago, I was fascinated by the fact that nuclear reactions can transmute one element to another. As years passed and the nuclear ...