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The main consideration is that California has long been regulated by the Subdivision Map Act. This means that you can't divide or combine land in California for sale, lease, or financing without getting approval from your local jurisdiction.

When comparing the terms, assemblage and plottage, assemblage refers to the process of combining individual parcels while plottage refers to the increased value of the combined, larger parcel. This distinction is particularly important in transactions that involve eminent domain.

If both of you are joint owners of the entire land and the building thereon, you can divide the property by metes and bounds by executing a Deed of Partition and having the same registered in the office of the sub-registrar having jurisdiction.

The process to split a piece of land into smaller pieces is known as "subdivision." The subdivision process starts with the Regional Planning Department (DRP) where a tentative map must be filed first. After the tentative map is approved, a final map must be processed and recorded through Public Works.

A Lot Merger combines two or more substandard lots into one and is a recorded document. A Lot Merger is completely different than a Lot Combination. A Lot Combination is processed through the Assessor's Office and combines the lots for tax billing convenience purposes only (i.e., one tax bill).

Land split means the division of improved or unimproved land into two or three tracts or parcels of land for the purpose of sales, rent or lease.

It is a boundary adjustment between four or fewer parcels, where the land from two or more parcels are merged in to one or more parcels, where number of parcels created are less than originally existed, and where a greater number of parcels than originally existed are not thereby created.