Marriage of Nguyen and Dang CA4/3
This divorce case illustrates Tolstoy’s famous dictum that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. On a record from which the inferences and conflicts must be resolved in favor of the trial court’s judgment, it appears appellant Pauline Nguyen (Pauline) engaged in some chicanery toward respondent Antonioni Dang (Tony ) in trying to wrest from him an item of his separate real property known as Trask. Before a business trip to Vietnam, Tony gave Pauline a power of attorney to sell Trask for $300,000 to a third party, in order to raise capital for a restaurant Tony hoped to open in Vietnam. Instead, Pauline used the power of attorney to give the property to her mother, Kinh Nguyen. Pauline’s mother then borrowed $85,000 on it, which she gave to Pauline. Pauline kept all but $42,000, which she passed on to Tony in increments.
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