Community Property and Separate Property
Dear Len & Rosie,
I have been married to my husband for ten years, but we lived together for at thirteen years before marrying. My husband has children and grandchildren from a previous marriage. He has all of his financial accounts in his name only, and our home is in a trust in his name only. He refuses to add my name to the deed. The trust is revocable, but I will get to "use" the home until I die, and then his heirs inherit. Under the circumstances, is any of his property community property? Or will I be left with nothing when he's no longer living? I wonder if I would be more secure divorced than married financially, since I worry that his children will contest any thing that my husband leaves me in a trust or will.
Susan
I have been married to my husband for ten years, but we lived together for at thirteen years before marrying. My husband has children and grandchildren from a previous marriage. He has all of his financial accounts in his name only, and our home is in a trust in his name only. He refuses to add my name to the deed. The trust is revocable, but I will get to "use" the home until I die, and then his heirs inherit. Under the circumstances, is any of his property community property? Or will I be left with nothing when he's no longer living? I wonder if I would be more secure divorced than married financially, since I worry that his children will contest any thing that my husband leaves me in a trust or will.
Susan