No More Draining Bank Accounts or Selling Property
Video Transcribed: Good day, everybody. This is Dustin Peterson, and I am The Oklahoma City Attorney. Several times a month, I’ll bring to you the answers to the most commonly heard questions and concerns from my consultations, and I hope you could use that information to make better decisions in your own situation.
Today’s question is, “If I file for divorce, will I be able to live since my spouse earns almost all our income?” Well, that’s definitely a concern I hear quite frequently, actually. And I want to say that, when we file a petition for divorce, if that’s what you want, filing with that petition, is something called an Automatic Temporary Injunction.
The Automatic Temporary Injunction, or ATI, as we call it, is meant to maintain the status quo. In other words, your spouse, upon receipt of that, will not be able to drain your bank accounts. They will not be able to sell the house or cars or dispose of other property that is otherwise subject to equitable division. Furthermore, the Automatic Temporary Injunction is to remain in place until such time as the courts can modify it through a temporary order.
So, oftentimes, we file concurrently with the petition, also an application for a temporary order, and we set a hearing date as soon as possible on that, where we can ask the court to assign certain income, debt, spousal maintenance, even child custody and visitation standards.
Again, I am Oklahoma divorce lawyer Dustin Peterson. If you have any questions about the Automatic Temporary injunction and/or temporary orders, please give me a call at my office at (405) 888-5400 or simply look me up online at oklahomacitydivorceattorney.pro.