2009 California Government Code - Section 22970.70-22970.72 :: Chapter 9. Community Property

22970.70.  (a) Upon the legal separation or dissolution of marriage
of a participant, the court shall include in the judgment or a court
order the date on which the parties separated.
   (b) If the community property is divided in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 2610 of the Family Code, the court shall
order that the allocations to the participant's account during the
marriage be divided into two separate and distinct accounts in the
name of the participant and the nonparticipant spouse, respectively.
Any contributions or earnings that are not explicitly awarded by the
judgment or court order shall be deemed the exclusive property of the
participant.

22970.71.  For purposes of this chapter, "nonparticipant spouse"
means the spouse or the former spouse of the participant, who as a
result of petitioning the court for the division of community
property, has been awarded a portion of the allocations to the
participant's account during the marriage to the participant.

22970.72.  The nonparticipant spouse shall have the right to a lump
sum distribution of the amount awarded to the nonparticipant spouse
by the judgment or court order.