Transmutation Agreement
Pronunciation: trans-mew-TAY-shun a-GREE-ment
A written agreement converting marital community property into separate property — used in community-property states to preserve Faraid.
Definition
A written agreement between spouses in a community-property state (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin) that re-characterizes existing community property as the separate property of one spouse, or vice versa. Because community-property regimes default to 50/50 ownership of marital assets — directly conflicting with the Islamic separation-of-property principle — a transmutation agreement is often the cleanest way to align ownership with Quranic distribution and the Islamic will.
California Family Code § 852, for example, requires transmutation agreements to be in writing and expressly state the change.
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Transmutation Agreement — A written agreement converting marital community property into separate property — used in community-property states to preserve Faraid. A written agreement between spouses in a community-property state (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin) that re-characterizes existing community property as the separate property of one spouse, or vice versa. Because community-property regimes default to 50/50 ownership of marital assets — directly conflicting with the Islamic separation-of-property principle — a transmutation agreement is often the cleanest way to align ownership with Quranic distribution and the Islamic will.
- A written agreement converting marital community property into separate property — used in community-property states to preserve Faraid.
- Category: Estate Planning
- Related: Elective Share, Faraid
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