Opinion
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
Super. Ct. No. 06FL08251
BLEASE, Acting P. J.
Husband Nishan Singh appeals from a judgment dividing community assets and debts, wherein the trial court found a mortgage debt totaling $133,600 was husband’s sole and separate property. For the reasons that follow, we shall affirm.
Husband’s notice of appeal indicates he appeals from the court’s tentative decision, which became the court’s statement of decision 10 days after filing. The substance of the court’s statement of decision was later incorporated into the final judgment, filed June 16, 2009. Pursuant to the rule of liberally construing a notice of appeal in favor of its sufficiency (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.821(a)(2)), we construe husband’s notice as attempting to perfect an appeal from the final judgment.
Husband has elected to proceed on a clerk’s transcript. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.121.) Thus, the appellate record does not include a reporter’s transcript of the trial in this matter. This is referred to as a “judgment roll” appeal. (Allen v. Toten (1985) 172 Cal.App.3d 1079, 1082-1083; Krueger v. Bank of America (1983) 145 Cal.App.3d 204, 207.)
The limited record we have establishes the following: Wife filed a petition for dissolution in November 2006. In September 2007, wife filed her second motion to compel discovery requesting evidentiary or issue sanctions against husband. Specifically, wife asked the court to “conclusively find that [husband] took $127,609 from the community property assets for his sole benefit.”
The court granted wife’s motion, including her request for sanctions. Accordingly, husband was “precluded from offering any evidence at trial of using $127,000 to pay debts or for any other purpose due to failure to provide evidence accounting for use of $127,000.00.”
Nevertheless, at trial, the court allowed husband to present evidence regarding the $127,000 he had taken from the family residence in the form of a second mortgage. Husband provided testimony as well as documentary evidence to support his claim that he used the money to pay community debt. Wife argued she had traced the money to an account held solely in husband’s name. Thus, she claimed the debt was husband’s separate property.
After two days of testimony and documentary evidence, the court took the matter under submission. In April 2009, the court issued its tentative decision finding the $133,600 debt on the family residence to be husband’s sole and separate property. The court further found that because husband “unilaterally removed almost the entire equity in the family residence,” and refused to make any disclosures regarding the money he took, that husband breached his fiduciary duty to wife and attempted to defraud her as well as the community. In order to equalize the distribution of property, the court then ordered husband to pay to wife $140,488.00.
Husband appeals.
DISCUSSION
On appeal, we must presume the trial court’s judgment is correct. (Denham v. Superior Court (1970) 2 Cal.3d 557, 564.) Thus, we must adopt all inferences in favor of the judgment, unless the record expressly contradicts them. (See Brewer v. Simpson (1960) 53 Cal.2d 567, 583.)
It is the burden of the party challenging a judgment to provide an adequate record to assess claims of error. (Ketchum v. Moses (2001) 24 Cal.4th 1122, 1140-1141.) An appellant must present an analysis of the facts and legal authority on each point made, and must support the analysis with appropriate citations to the material facts in the record. If an appellant fails to do so, the argument is forfeited. (County of Solano v. Vallejo Redevelopment Agency (1999) 75 Cal.App.4th 1262, 1274; Duarte v. Chino Community Hospital (1999) 72 Cal.App.4th 849, 856.)
When an appeal is “on the judgment roll” (Allen v. Toten, supra, 172 Cal.App.3d at pp. 1082-1083), we must conclusively presume evidence was presented that is sufficient to support the court’s findings. (Ehrler v. Ehrler (1981) 126 Cal.App.3d 147, 154.) Our review is limited to determining whether any error “appears on the face of the record.” (National Secretarial Service, Inc. v. Froehlich (1989) 210 Cal.App.3d 510, 521; Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.163.)
Husband contends the trial court abused its discretion in finding the $133,600 he borrowed from the equity in the family residence was husband’s sole and separate property. He argues the money was taken to pay “underlying” community debts, which he contends the trial court ignored.
With no reporter’s transcript of the trial, we must presume the court found sufficient evidence to support its decision. (Ehrler v. Ehrler, supra, 126 Cal.App.3d at p. 154.) On the face of this record, we find nothing to suggest otherwise. (National Secretarial Service, Inc. v. Froehlich, supra, 210 Cal.App.3d at p. 521; Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.163.)
DISPOSITION
The trial court judgment is affirmed. Husband shall reimburse wife for her costs on appeal. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.278(a)(1).)
We concur: NICHOLSON, J. MAURO, J.