Marriage of Salmond
Quintin Salmond and Brenda Salmond were both injured in an airplane crash and jointly settled their claims with American Airlines for the total amount of $17,500,000. Shortly afterwards, they separated and Brenda initiated divorce proceedings. Brenda appeals, claiming that, based on her interpretation of Family Code section 2603, the trial court erred by not assigning to her one half of the American Airlines settlement. We conclude the trial court did not abuse its discretion in assigning to each party the amount they previously agreed should be allocated to each of them as part of the settlement. (In re Marriage of Devlin (1982) 138 Cal.App.3d 804, 807-808 (Devlin).) Court also reject Brendas other assignments of error and affirm the judgment.
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