Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in California

Re: cosigned on car loan

Yes, unless you joined the creditor into your divorce proceeding, and had a judge declare that you were no longer responsible for that debt. The key here is that the only way your divorce decree, pressumably giving your ex-spouse that debt to repay, can be binding on third-parties such as creditors, is to have them joined into the actual divorce proceeding. Its extremely rare that people do so.

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