At the White Oak Law, we’ve dealt with thousands of unique divorces and family law cases, each with their own intricacies. Over this time, we’ve seen it all, from amicable divorces to hostile and contentious proceedings that are drawn out for months. 

Unfortunately, the conduct of your ex can play a large part in shaping how your divorce proceedings play out. Today, we’re looking at potential dirty tactics that you might see the ex try to pull off during your CA divorce.

Most Common Dirty Strategies Seen in CA Divorces

Hiding or Wasting Marital Assets

When faced with divorce, many people choose to lock their soon to be ex out of the marital assets. They may start hiding assets or cash in an attempt to avoid asset division, or may simply start to run up giant tabs and try to burn through all the shared assets ASAP. This can carry serious consequences for the offender, but these actions can still turn your life upside down. 

Turning Your Children Against You

Some parents choose to go to war via their kids – that is, they try and poison the kids against the other parent. They might make claims such as blaming the other party entirely for the divorce, emphasis that the other parent would have never separated if they truly loved them, and more. These tactics are heartbreaking but take solace in the fact that family law courts do not take kindly to these actions. 

Skipping Out on Child Support or other Custody Obligations

Plenty of others choose to punish their separating spouse by pulling back on assistance with the kids, foregoing child custody or support obligations, and more. This can make life very difficult for the other parent and the children, but actions such as these can also lead to loss of parental rights for the offending parent. 

Other Forms of Hostile Actions

In addition to these, many people will go as far as to harass or verbally or physically abuse their divorcing partner. Sometimes it’s not possible for one person to truly separate from the other while divorce proceedings are ongoing. Other times even distance isn’t enough to stop the harassment from a tenacious ex.

Whatever the case might be in your situation, no one deserves to be subjected to these or other dirty divorce tactics in CA. With the help of a skilled attorney, you can seek protection via the family law courts as well as make sure that these factors are fully visible to the family law courts when they make their decisions, 

Learn more about how a family law attorney can help you with your CA divorce and call us today at 925-271-0999.