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Use the 3-step source, actions, presumptions (SAP) approach as it will help you spot the issues and organize your answer. Within the SAP approach use

Use the 3-step source, actions, presumptions (SAP) approach as it will help you spot the issues and organize your answer. Within the SAP approach use the IRAC writing method to discuss each issue and sub-issue raised by the facts. You start by reading the hypothetical below:

Hap and Winnie were married in Los Angeles in 2000. Hap was working as a lawyer in a large law firm at the time. Winnie had been working as Hap's secretary in the same law firm, and, in 2000, at Hap's encouraging, she returned to school to get a law degree. Winnie graduated in 2004, passed the bar exam that same year, and by 2005 the couple opened their own firm, Hap taking a number of his biggest clients with him.

In 2001, Winnie perfected and sold a computer program that she had been working on for the prior two years that turned out to be of great use to law firm lawyers, and was thus quite profitable.

The couple lived from the time they were married until they were divorced (in December 2007) in the large Los Angeles home Hap bought in 1999, though they often worked remotely from the condo they bought in 2002 in Ventura, CA.

What are Hap's and Winnie's respective rights to the following?

  1. Winnie's computer program profits.
  2. The couple's law practice.
  3. The Los Angeles house.
  4. The Ventura condo.
  5. Hap's claim to reimbursement of expenses for Winnie's legal education.

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