Morrow, GA Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

In Louisiana you may be entitled to temporary spousal support while the divorce is pending and for up to six months thereafter. You may be entitled to receive child support for the support of the children, if you are awarded primary custody of the children. Louisiana is a "community property" state, meaning that you each share in both the assets and liabilities that were created during the marriage-which means you are responsible for the bills but share in all of the assets-including a share of your husband's retirement, if earned during the time you were married. The fact that you have not worked in ten years, if by the agreement of your husband, may make you qualified for a more permanent spousal support. Permanent spousal support is based upon your being in "necessitous circumstances," and is limited to the amount that it would take for you to be able to make a bare living.

The only way to address this is with the clerk or judge's office. It's different in each county. If he hired a lawyer, they could usually schedule a final hearing with the court and she would have to show up.

This question is a tricky one and would require a review of the divorce decree/agreement and the quitclaim deed signed to properly answer it. Depending on what those documents say, the recourse would be to either bring a contempt action against the estate of the ex-wife or to file some type of claim with the probate Court.