LdiJ said:
My response is based on the many, many, many people who have been stuck with sharing a spouses medical debt....in every state in this country.....because they either didn't have health insurance, or were dumb enough to cancel their spouse's health insurance before they were actually divorced.
Its just plain a stupid thing to do.
Well, there goes STUPID again! I knew you knew nothing about this subject. Hang it up, Ldij. Admit it, you know absolutely nothing about law generally, and specifically, nothing about California law.
You see, Dufus, if the parties have separated
in anticipation of dissolution or legal separation, there is no rational basis for implying a joint debt. Quite the contrary, in a property division proceeding, the court "has jurisdiction to order reimbursement to one, not incurring the debt, in cases it deems appropriate for
debts paid after separation but before trial." [Ca Fam § 2626 (emphasis added); see generally, Marriage of Feldner (1995) 40 Cal.App.4th 617, 624, 47 Cal.Rptr.2d 312, 316]
You see, STUPID, if you had read my post, above, where I said . . .
"The law in California is, and as a general rule, for so long as husband and wife or registered domestic partners are living together, they owe each other a mutual duty of support. [Ca Fam § 4300--"Subject to this division (Ca Fam § 3500 et seq.), "a person shall support the person's spouse"; Marriage of Pendleton & Fireman (2000) 24 Cal.4th 39, 52, 99 Cal.Rptr.2d 278, 288; see also Borelli v. Brusseau (1993) 12 Cal.App.4th 647, 652, 16 Cal.Rptr.2d 16, 18--"husband and wife assume mutual obligations of support upon marriage"]"
. . . you could have realized that my quote was a BIG HINT to the actual law of the State of California. You see, these two interpretations go hand-in-hand with each other.
STOP RESPONDING TO CALIFORNIA THREADS!! YOU'RE MISLEADING THE CITIZENS OF MY STATE!!!
IAAL