Court Opinion

ID: 9878036
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-27 16:37:49.365456+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:47:30.997187
License: Public Domain

SCALES, J.
concurring.
I wholeheartedly concur with the majority opinion and write separately to emphasize that this Court’s granting of the Trust’s motion to enforce our earlier mandate should not be interpreted as an independent validation of the Trust’s' lien on Garcia’s wife’s interest in the property. That lien, while adjudicated in a final judgment, is derived from a mortgage purporting to encumber jointly owned marital property. Yet, as adjudicated by the trial *70court in the same final judgment, the mortgage was signed by only one spouse. Because the foreclosure judgment was not appealed, however, the majority opinion does not reach the issue of whether this hen would have withstood appellate scrutiny.