Legal Question in Family Law in California

Re: credit cards used for beer

The law presumes that debts incurred during the marriage are community debts. This presumption can be overcome with evidence showing the debt was not incurred in a way that would or could benefit the "community", or in a way that would constitute a breach of fiduciary duties owed to the community. Your husband's food and car would probably be considered community debts as they beneffited the community, i.e. they benefitted him. He is a member of the community. Thus the community has benefitted. Whether you could succefully argue that the alcohol and cigarettes are not community property is difficult to know. I do not know of any law directly on point on this particular issue. In order to intelligently answer your question as to whether you would be laible for spousal support, any attorney would need much more information as many, many factors are considered by the courts when making a spousal support award.