He’s scum, let him lose it all. Besides, he wasn’t worth a billon at marriage, it developed as married couple.
“Besides, he wasn’t worth a billon at marriage, it developed as married couple.”
Well, in California divorce law, there’s a concept of “tracing.” If he gets Google stock for $800 for work he did before he got married, it’s considered “separate property.” It doesn’t matter if it appreciates during the marriage to $1,000 or $1 billion, it’s still separate property. Unless he’s actively still earning it by working at Google during the marriage (which he wasn’t) and it was compensation for that work during the marriage (it wasn’t), it’s still separate property and she has no claim on it.
Her best case is that he took the proceeds from his Google windfall and co-mingled it other assets that were community property and the appreciation from those community assets should be split 50-50.