The Ohio-California split could prompt the nation's high court to take up the issue.

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California law requires a couple to split their assets equally in a divorce.

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She took time off to stay home with their children (they split their time between California and Hawaii) and adopted, as she calls it, a "service-oriented" role in the house.

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California couples are supposed to file separate single (or head of household) returns, but with community property income split as if they were married, in accordance with California law.

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Many stories will be told in the wake of a highly public split between the former governor of California and his wife, Maria Shriver.

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In 1971 he split with his brother Dan and founded Samson Resources to buy the oil properties of Amerada Hess in Southern California.

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