Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California

Property Abandonment

I am trying to find out what the law is on personal property abandonment. we had my brother in law passaway and his wife lived with us and used our address as her place of residence. She took off in Nov and left her stuff she has picked up most of her personal property and left there comunity property and his personal property and has had no contact and has not said anything about picking up anything else. How long do we have to wait until it is considered abandoned by her. There is nothing of great value but it takes up alot of space and I need to know how log I have to wait before I can get rid of most of it.


Asked on 1/16/04, 9:02 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert F. Cohen Law Office of Robert F. Cohen

Re: Property Abandonment

Hi. I've seen this post before. You should give her written notice of abandoned property before doing anything with it. If you don't know where she is, as a matter of precaution, you should store it -- at least until the statute of limitation for conversion (i.e. your exercise of dominion and control of her personal property) has run, that is, three years from the date she left.

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Answered on 1/16/04, 10:37 pm


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