Floresville, TX Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

The answer to your question depends on what state you live in. If you live in Georgia, then a divorce must address an equitable division of marital property. Marital property is generally that property which was acquired during the course of the marriage. Obviously one asset may have a marital portion and a nonmarital portion. Your situation will have to be resolved either by agreement or by trial.

If no answer was filed by you in the divorce (which it probably was not, as you claim it was uncontested), your case will be dismissed by the courts in about a year's time for want of prosecution. At that point, your case would be dismissed and closed, so if you decided to pursue divorce again, you would have to start the case from the beginning.

My advice is that you immediately seek advice from a local and experienced family law attorney. Even if the divorce can not be set aside you may have some other claims about property distribution, or contribution of payments to property he claims is his pursuant to the decree. In Arizona he would also have generally been required to sign an affidavit that he mailed or delivered a copy of the decree to you. I hope this helps.