Hanford, CA Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

By letting her default you, you allow her to control the division of assets and debts and put in any amount of support. You need to participate in the process or put up with whatever you get. A marital settlement agreement means you get to agree on what happens. Unless you have no debts, no credit cards, no assets, no house, no retirement, no kids and there will be no support, a default judgment is a scary thing and do not go complaining about it afterwards. You should be taking some control over what happens.

You need to find an attorney in Tennessee so that you can enforce your support order against your ex husband. You also need to make sure that the order is filed in the county where your ex husband resides. A local attorney should be able to help you with the process.

Car Question - In Oregon, when a Petition for Dissolution of marriage is filed and the respondent has been served, an automatic Statutory Restraining Order comes into effect which prevents either party from "transferring, encumbering, concealing or disposing of property in which the other party has an interest" without the written permission of the other party or an order of the court. While you may have bought the vehicle on your own and are the only obligor on the car loan, there is a rebuttable presumption that all property acquired during marriage is marital property until proven otherwise. In order to acquire that vehicle, you will need either a written agreement with your soon-to-be ex-spouse or an order from the court which would require a written motion. If you have a lawyer already, ask him or her about this process. If you are pro se (on your own without a lawyer) you probably need to get one involved in the process of bringing a motion. The fact that he lost his job and cannot pay for the loan or insurance sounds like an adequate for the court to grant the motion.