{"id":88,"date":"2011-03-07T21:35:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scoresbyfamilylaw.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2019-11-23T22:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T05:26:43","slug":"no-fault-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scoresbyfamilylaw.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/07\/no-fault-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;No Fault&quot; Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Most of my clients know when they come in to my office that Arizona is a &#8220;no fault&#8221; divorce state, but they don&#8217;t always know what that means. To family law judges and attorneys, &#8220;no fault&#8221; means that the reasons for the divorce are <strong>generally <\/strong>not relevant to the disposition of the financial issues in the case, including spousal maintenance, child support, and the division of assets and debts.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nA.R.S. Sec. 25-318 A provides that the divorce judge is to divide the marital assets &#8220;equitably, . . . without regard to marital misconduct.&#8221; A common example is the case of the unfaithful spouse. A client comes in to the office and reports that she has just discovered that her husband has been having an affair. She wants a divorce. Is she entitled to be awarded most or all of the marital assets because her husband committed adultery? Answer: NO. The marital assets are still divided equitably, which usually means substantially equally.<\/p>\n<p>There are occasionally exceptions to this, such as when one spouse intentionally wastes assets just prior to the divorce filing. A colleague once told me of a client of hers who, on the weekend before the divorce filing, took a trip to Las Vegas with her friends and blew through some $10,000 of the parties&#8217; joint funds. In this case, the court would likely count the $10,000 spent in Vegas as part of the assets the spender receives in the divorce. The spender would therefore be awarded 50% of the joint funds which existed <strong>before <\/strong>the spending spree, and the $10,000 she spent would be included as part of her 50% share. She would NOT be awarded 50% of the joint funds remaining <strong>after<\/strong> the spending spree.<\/p>\n<p>Some misconduct may be relevant to the court&#8217;s child custody and parenting time decisions. An extramarital affair usually would not be a factor, but drug use probably would be. If the drug-using spouse wasted significant marital funds to support his drug habit, the &#8220;waste&#8221; of those funds could also be considered in the division of the assets.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Scoresby Family Law \u2013 J. Kyle Scoresby, P.C. 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