Yoakam v. Kingery

Holding

The court held that a husband and wife may, by valid written agreement, transmute their separate property into community property, and that the surviving husband was therefore the absolute owner of certain parcels of land that were the subject of such an agreement. However, the court affirmed the lower court’s judgment regarding a separate tract of land where the defendant held legal title as a trustee, finding that a quiet title action was not the proper remedy against a trustee.