Community Property in the United States is the only casebook on the subject with cases and statutes from all of the nine community property states: the eight states that derived their community property systems from Spanish-Mexican or Spanish-French colonial law (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington) and Wisconsin, which has community property laws based upon the Uniform Marital Property Act promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1983. Within the same basic system, the states differ in their treatment of many issues. Observation of these similarities and differences will enhance the student's understanding of a particular state's law and develop his or her critical faculties.