Chapter 9. Community Property of California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 8. >> Chapter 9.

(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.

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.

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.