| ICSC Legal Database - Cases | Monday, February 22, 1999 05:06 PM |
| Citation: |
| 11601 Wilshire Assoc. v. Grebow, 74 Cal. Rptr. 2d 912 (Ct. App. 1998). |
| Issue: |
| A landlord could not seek a judgement against the wife of a guarantor based on the personal guarantee of a |
| lease by her husband. The wife did not sign the lease or the guarantee, was not a member of the law |
| firm/lessee, and did not maintain an office in the leased premises. The court rejected the landlord's arguments |
| that it needed a judgment against the wife because it could record an abstract of the judgement against her, |
| limited to her interest in the community property, and that it needed to protect its judgment if the parties moved |
| to a state like Arizona where execution of a foreign judgment is permitted only if both spouses are named as |
| Classification 1: |
| Guarantees/Guarantors |
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