Legal Question in Family Law in California

I am not real clear on what exactly was put down on the house, when the businesses were started, etc., so I can give you a very general answer. Title does not control how a property is distributed upon divorce. If a house was purchased with a very low down, and then the marital assets paid the mortgage all those years, the best she can hope for is reimbursement for the down payment. Whatever was paid with community assets is community property. I am not real clear why your first wife would be attaching your property, but suffice it to say that anyone who helps you cheat someone else out of money is not going to have a problem doing it to you. In fact, they then have a built-in justification for doing it without guilt. Your question starts getting fuzzy about the middle when you start talking about a trust account (like an attorney account?) that I seem to understand she was treating as her own money. I don't know much about the vacation cabin business. Just be sure if you are going to report her (which I don't recommend if you really want a person out of your life and move on to a happier life) that you are not shooting yourself in the foot by failing to report it earlier, or if she dumped your funds into that account, you could have issues as well. You need to obtain an attorney to talk to about all of this in much greater issue than we can do on Law Guru.