Legal Question in Consumer Law in California

My boyfriend just ended a nasty 2 1/2 year divorce. He was married for 17 years, and a business owner in a small town. It was just brought to his attention at their settlement conference yesterday that his now ex wife went into the local Chevy dealership and had all of his personal and business account information printed and given to her. He was never notified. This information was used as "income" against him since his work truck is also his personal truck. What legal recourse is there against the dealership for making these records available to anyone. The money spend on the account at the dealership was factored in to increase her alimony payments. Thank you!


Asked on 8/20/14, 4:34 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Kelvin Green The Law Office of Kelvin Green

I will tell you that he would have seen the computations for the spousal support so the numbers would not gave been a surprise and he would have had plenty of opportunity to context the amounts.

Since he uses a work truck for personal use, there may be countable income under the IRS code. .. So maybe the income counts as should be included we can't say.

You claim she went into the dealer but what you don't tell us is who was on the personal account, if it were for a vehicle in both their names probably nothing.

Business account, we don't know what type of business organization it is and if she were part of it.

Maybe she had a subpoena and the only thing she did was not properly serve him. The time to bring that up was in the court proceeding.

We don't know... Not enough facts. Until you can prove improper release there is nothing, if it did happen there might be damages. What actual damages did he suffer? Try and explain to a court the damages were the amount that alimony increased because he did not provide the income to the court voluntarily like he was supposed to and that she had to get it because he was hiding it...I just don't think you would get very far...

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Answered on 8/20/14, 7:08 pm


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