Legal Question in Family Law in California

The divorce court does not have the power to order a lender to accept one borrower when they agreed to extend the loan or credit based on two people being responsible for the debt. The court can order you and your husband to each pay certain debts, and where financially possible to do things such as take out a debt consolidation loan or make other pay-off arrangments. But as long as the orginal debt exists, the court cannot order that the lender only collect from one of you.