GANANCIAL

ganancial (g<<schwa>>-nan-sh<<schwa>>l), adj. Of, relating to, or consisting of community

property <a spouse’s ganancial rights>. See COMMUNITY PROPERTY. [Cases: Husband and

Wife 246–276(9).]

“The Spanish [more correctly, the Castilian] form of community property, called the

‘ganancial’ system, is found today in nine states of the United States, the Spanish-American

republics of Central and South America, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Philippine

Republic.” Robert L. Menell & Thomas M. Boykoff, Com-munity Property in a Nutshell 10 (21988).G & A

G & A.abbr.See general administrative expense under EXPENSE.[Blacks Law 8th]