Petaluma, CA Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

I cannot know why your boyfriend is ordered to keep his ex-wife on his life insurance, but I can make a pretty good guess. It is not uncommon for courts to order parents to keep life insurance in place until their minor children reach adulthood. The reason for this is to ensure that these minor children have financial support. Likewise, courts will often order those who have an alimony obligation to keep life insurance in place until the alimony obligation terminates. If your boyfriend is order to maintain life insurance for the benefit of his wife, so that she has alimony paid in the event of his death, then there is little if anything he can do to take her off the policy until alimony obligation terminates. In Utah, unless the decree of divorce states otherwise, alimony terminates upon the recipient's death, remarriage, or cohabitation (which means living together in a relationship that is essentially like a marriage without the alimony recipient remarrying, *i.e*., "shacking up"). if the ex-wife has remarried auras cohabiting, but the decree says he has to keep her on his insurance no matter what, he might have a chance of getting her off his insurance if he can show that she is now married are cohabitating and not in need of life insurance coverage on her ex-husband.

Presuming that your ex has filed a Response so that you are unable to proceed by default, you need to file a Request for Trial Setting to obtain a trial date but, be forewarned that both parties will have had to have filed a Declaration of Service re Declaration of Disclosure before the court will give you a trial date.?Finalizing?the dissolution?is not a simple process if you don't have experience doing it so you should contact a lawyer. It will cost you some money but, otherwise, you may be spinning your wheels for a long time without having any success. Some attorneys will agree to accept payments from you.