Five Frequently Forgotten Assets

In divorce, legal separation, and domestic partnership dissolution actions, parties are required to disclose the existence of all assets, regardless of whether each is characterized as community property (i.e. jointly owned), separate property, or a hybrid of both community and separate property.  Each party owes the other a fiduciary duty of good faith and fair…

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,…