California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Marriage of Roesch, In re, 147 Cal.Rptr. 586, 83 Cal.App.3d 96 (Cal. App. 1978):
In the absence of a statute to the contrary, personal property acquired by a spouse during marriage while domiciled in a common law state does not lose its character as the separate property of the acquiring spouse upon a change of domicile to a community property state. (Addison v. Addison (1965) 62 Cal.2d 558, 563, 43 Cal.Rptr. 97, 399 P.2d 897; see 14 A.L.R.3d 404, 411-416.) Furthermore, the rule of tracing is invoked so that all property later acquired in exchange for the common law separate property is likewise deemed separate property. (Id.)
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