Olton, TX Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

Unless you can meet the standards of fraud or insanity, you must file for dissolution of marriage not annulment. There is a process called a joint petition for dissolution of marriage which is good for short term marriages with no children or assets. Check that out online or at the court.

Your joint account is owned jointly, until a divorce petition is filed with the court, they is no set rules on how to share the money, however once the court steps in, one maybe called to explain how monies jointly owed by the community estate was spent to avoid an assumption of waste or hiding of funds.

You can file an agreed Motion to Dismiss (signed by both parties).  However, if no action is taken on the case, then the Court will eventually set the case on its dismissal docket.  If no one shows up for the dismissal hearing to argue as to why the case should be retained on the docket, then the Court will dismiss the case without need of any further action by the parties.  Keep in mind, the downside of waiting for the Court to dismiss could mean months and months of waiting.  The time frame is different for each Court depending on the Judge and the Court's docket.