Property Division
What is the difference between community property and separate property?
- Community property is anything that a husband and wife own together and/or acquired and earned
during the marriage or domestic partnership. This includes debts incurred by either spouse up to the time of separation.
How to Keep Your House in a Divorce
- Separate property is anything that a husband and wife owns separately. This commonly includes anything owned
before getting married, anything earned or received after you separate, and anything you may have received as a gift or by inheritance, at any time.
We have a house and I want to keep living in it when we are divorced, what do I do?
Whenever there are disputes as to what is considered community or separate property assets and/or debts, the court will generally allow you to provide information (i.e. documents, statements, deeds, etc.) that show very clearly where certain money came from and how it was spent. NOTE: This process can requires expert evaluation and assistance. It may be best to contact an attorney in a situation such as this.