Legal Question in Family Law in California

Re: Property

You will have to determine the status of the file and then you can determine what action is required to complete the dissolution of marriage.

All property that was acquired after the date of the separation should be your separate property. It must however, be listed in a statement of assets in the dissolution of marriage process.

Re: Property

You should first check to see if the case is still active. Once filed she had up to five years (longer in some cases) to finalize the divorce. If the case is still active, you can request the judgment from the court and finish the divorce. If the case is no longer active, you can file for divorce yourself.

Re: Property

As to the new car for your fiance, by filing the divorce and living separate and apart from you since 1996, you can demonstrate to the court that you and your wife have been legally separated since 1996. Therefore, if you used your earnings that you received since 1996 to purchase the new car for your fiance, those earnings would be separate property. Your wife would have no right to touch it. If, however, you used savings that you and your wife put away together before 1996, she may have a claim on the proceeds that purchased the car.