Legal Question in Family Law in California

My wife has said she wants a divorce. I have been a stay at home approx 4 years while she went through school. I started school in Aug for LVN and she announced in Sept she wanted a divorce. My wife said she will wait for my school to be over, also the time she will finish her masters program. She only works part time but used to pick up alot of shifts. She made 68k last year. In Sept. she immediately only worked her required 24hrs a week. She started charging her cards up and I was forced to sign a loan from her 401k to pay off her American express and put money down from taxes on the rest although she tried to stop my from putting any on my credit card. She ed that she isn't going to work more than she has to because she isn't going to give me a dime in alimony. Her pay should drop to maybe 35k this year about a 30k difference. We have two children. I still do all the cooking, make all meals while going to school 32 hrs a week and get up at 3am to study as it is hard with the children up.

Her master program at University of phoenix is one day a week class time.

We had a verbal agreement on laon that she would pick up hours and continuing paying the full amount on CC rather than the lower amount once she made the large payments, none of which as happened and has stated again that she will not pick on any time so as not to pay me more alimony.

What would I like is to be the primary caretaker, have the children 80% of the time, enough alimony and child support to survive. I plan to attend R.N school, have already completed all the pre-reqs, will take a year and do not want to lose the children during this time. I'm planning to try to find an attorney real soon and start proccedings, I had originally planned to wait until I completed my lvn in Dec but things are getting very bad and would rather not have the children exposed to it anymore.


Asked on 4/25/12, 6:05 pm

2 Answer from Attorneys
Rhonda Ellifritz Law Offices of Rhonda Ellifritz

You not filing and requesting support from her is doing nothing but giving her time to really stick it to you. Make an appointment ASAP. Many offer a free consultation, including myself.

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Answered on 4/25/12, 6:14 pm


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