Pending Divorce Disbursement of Sale of Property

by Kristi
(Bridgeville, CA)

I live in California and am looking at a pending divorce. Our home is closing escrow within a week. My husband and I have been married 9 years. He bought our home before we met (5 months earlier) and over a period of 10 years it was paid off with a combination of his medical retirement income and a timber harvest I planned and orchestrated.

We married in 2002 and he put my name on the deed in 2003. Because we live in a community property state, do the proceeds of the sale of our home of 19 years belong to us equally? He did not have me sign a prenup.