Legal Question in Family Law in Nevada

Can your spouse use your credit without your authorization

While stationed in HI, my boyfriend was deployed to Iraq all of 2004. He was seperated with his wife at the time. She lived in AZ. While he was in Iraq she open several credit cards in his name only and max them out. She had the bills mailed to her home in AZ and never made a payment. My boyfriend returnd to Hawaii in early 2005 to find his credit ruined. AZ police department said that it was legal for her to open the cards i(in the stores) in his name only and sign his name because they were still legally married. But he's never been to AZ and was a resisdent of Hawaii at the time. Isn't this fraud? Is it legal for her to sign his name without power of attorney? Also, when a married couple files for debit consolidation does that automaically add the spouse to the exsisting credit card account if he or she was not an authorized user before the debit consolidation was filed?


Asked on 7/03/07, 5:17 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
James Smith James E. Smith Ltd.

Re: Can your spouse use your credit without your authorization

In a community property state like Arizona and Nevada what is his is hers and vice versa. There is a partnership and one person can act for the other. Title does not negate this.

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Answered on 7/03/07, 7:38 am


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