During the pendency of any proceeding under this article, the court, upon the application of the petitioner, may issue ex parte orders:
(a) Restraining the spouse having the management or control of community property from transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life.
(b) Requiring the spouse having the management or control of the community property to notify the petitioner of any proposed extraordinary expenditures and to account to the court for all such extraordinary expenditures.
(Enacted by Stats. 1990, Ch. 79.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018