Question About Belonging Bought During Marriage. Already Filed For Divorce.

[Jmarty]

Wyoming.

I filed for divorce and my wife was served with the papers in the first week of August 2011. She has emailed me today and said this:

"We will also need to write a list of all our belongings that were bought since we were married. I have a list, but you could write one as well we can compare. If we don't specify property in the divorce, the judge will do it for us, and it's probably best if we agree in advance."

We do not have children. We do not have payments of any kind (mortgage, car etc). The 'belongings' she is talking about would be clothes, computers, dvd's. Things of that nature.

What is she up to and would a judge be interested in this?

 

[Banned_Princess]

Wyoming.

I filed for divorce and my wife was served with the papers in the first week of August 2011. She has emailed me today and said this:

"We will also need to write a list of all our belongings that were bought since we were married. I have a list, but you could write one as well we can compare. If we don't specify property in the divorce, the judge will do it for us, and it's probably best if we agree in advance."

We do not have children. We do not have payments of any kind (mortgage, car etc). The 'belongings' she is talking about would be clothes, computers, dvd's. Things of that nature.

What is she up to and would a judge be interested in this?

sounds to me like she is being completely reasonable and cooperative in this divorce.

A judge would prefer if you guys agree on the split of marital property before hand. makes his job easier.

 

[mistoffolees]

Wyoming.

I filed for divorce and my wife was served with the papers in the first week of August 2011. She has emailed me today and said this:

"We will also need to write a list of all our belongings that were bought since we were married. I have a list, but you could write one as well we can compare. If we don't specify property in the divorce, the judge will do it for us, and it's probably best if we agree in advance."

We do not have children. We do not have payments of any kind (mortgage, car etc). The 'belongings' she is talking about would be clothes, computers, dvd's. Things of that nature.

What is she up to and would a judge be interested in this?

What's your concern? I agree with BP - sounds like she's being reasonable.

First thing I would do is separate out all the things that were solely one of ours (either things owned before you got married or else things like clothes which clearly belong to one of you). Then divide the rest as equally as possible.

 

[Jmarty]

Thank you for your replies. I think she is trying to be difficult. Everything I own fit very easily into a 10 foot moving truck with plenty of room to spare. While we were married, she bought me a computer, a monitor and speakers that came to just under $1000 and a while later, I bought her a laptop for $1100. We bought 20 blank C90 cassettes once and I have those. We bought an external hard drive together and a PC card to make an old one work with Windows 7 and I have those. After I left her, she bought an identical external hard drive and brought it round to where I was staying and I filled it up with all the data that was on the first one. Apart from clothes, I can't actually think of very much that we bought together that I have with me. I left her in the house we rented from her cousin and all I took is my clothes, my computer, the external hard drive, those tapes and several storage containers we bought together. She got everything else. Including my car, because I didn't think it would make it 1600 miles to where I am staying now. So I signed it over to her and she sold it. And there is nothing she has that I want.

 

[Banned_Princess]

Thank you for your replies. I think she is trying to be difficult. Everything I own fit very easily into a 10 foot moving truck with plenty of room to spare. While we were married, she bought me a computer, a monitor and speakers that came to just under $1000 and a while later, I bought her a laptop for $1100. We bought 20 blank C90 cassettes once and I have those. We bought an external hard drive together and a PC card to make an old one work with Windows 7 and I have those. After I left her, she bought an identical external hard drive and brought it round to where I was staying and I filled it up with all the data that was on the first one. Apart from clothes, I can't actually think of very much that we bought together that I have with me. I left her in the house we rented from her cousin and all I took is my clothes, my computer, the external hard drive, those tapes and several storage containers we bought together. She got everything else. Including my car, because I didn't think it would make it 1600 miles to where I am staying now. So I signed it over to her and she sold it. And there is nothing she has that I want.

ok, tell her you are satisfied with what you got.

no need to divide anything else.

tell her all you want is a 250$ uncontested divorce.

 

[Jmarty]

Thanks. I'll email her back with that. The divorce you mentioned is the one I filed and she got served. It cost me $70 to file, plus $10 for the packet and $75 to have her served.

 

[mistoffolees]

ok, tell her you are satisfied with what you got.

no need to divide anything else.

tell her all you want is a 250$ uncontested divorce.

I agree.

Note - in case you start thinking of fighting over the computers or something, keep in mind that when the judge divides things, they get valued at fair market value - which is pretty low for used computers (and most household goods, for that matter).