Legal Question in Family Law in California

Re: not married what can I do?

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The facts that you have provided are not clear

enough and/or complete enough to provide a

definitive answer to you inquiry. How long have you been together? What is your relationship, if any, to/with the kids. Basically, you probably each will have rights as if you were informal business partners. Unlike for a married couple, title of/on assets and obligations will be important. Also, either of you may be eligible to bring a Marvin action ("palimony") against the other, although such cases are very difficult to win. Too bad you didn't enter into a Cohabitation Agreement before you started commingling your finances. Hopefully, you will be able to enter into a written settlement/distribution agreement now, before things get really ugly.

Thanks for sharing your interesting inquiry, and good luck with your case.

Re: not married what can I do?

You will need to bring what is called a partition action--it is a little more complicated than a divorce, but it will essentially cause all the assets to be split 50/50