QUESTION: After telling my husband that I want a divorce, he told me he has been cheating on me all along. Is it to my advantage to file a divorce petition using grounds of adultery?
MY RESPONSE:
Your husband's cheating on you during the marriage will not affect your divorce in California. California has no-fault divorce. The appropriate ground for you to use to seek dissolution of your marriage is "irreconcilable differences". The Petition for Dissolution of Marriage has no checkbox for Adultery, which hasn't been a ground for divorce in California for decades.
If your husband has been using community funds to support his relationship with his girl friend, you may be able to recover your 50% community share of the funds that you are able to prove that he expended on that relationship.
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