Can I make a “big” purchase before my divorce or legal separation is finalized?
Like so many legal answers, the answer to this question is “it depends.” At the commencement of divorce and legal separation cases, Automatic Temporary Restraining Orders (ATROs) are issued and effective against both parties (see Summons form FL-110). One of those ATROs prohibits parties from “transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of,…