Information on Arizona Debt Division.
Each state varies, Arizona is considered to be a community property state when comes to divorce and dividing property. The divorce courts have the right here on who gets what and get to make that decision in the divorce. The divorce courts do attempt to divide the property and debt as equally as possible in the divorce. Now they will allow the spouses to put in what they want in the divorce, and the divorce courts will look that over when deciding. They will also at some points let the spouses separate the property between each other if there is no fights, but then the divorce courts still have the right to look at the split, of property and debt, they do believe things should be split fairly.
Things such as marital misconduct, adultery are not looked at when dividing property in a divorce, it is not meant to punish anyone, but to separate the property and debt only. Remember in community property states, they do not look what the spouses income or anything of that sorts to figure who gets what, they just divide the property equally, this is where they sometimes allow the spouses to come in and say what they want and do not want in the divorce and if the other spouse will.
Now just like every state, there are things that are not considered to be community property, but your own separate property, again I stress this in every debt division divorce blog that if the property is commingled with marital property it can be taken and split in the divorce, you can keep records, but this does not always count.
So remember things such as inheritance, things you had before you were married, separate income from a separate investment you had before you were married, can not be taken in a divorce. But do not commingle they may not take the business if its in your name but if you have put the money from the business in a joint account that can be split.