Will the courts overrule a wife and husbands agreement to split?
While I would love to answer your question directly, the problem is that any answer given in this forum would be based on an incomplete set of facts. While I realize lawyers in California can be expensive, getting a lawyer who specializes in collaborative divorce, is well worth the expense. Having a lawyer help you when you have a deal and are working together is a good investment. It definitely costs less than going to court. There are any number of additional issues that may impact your ultimate division of assets tax issues being among those. Lawyers who are invested in a non confrontational style of divorce planning exist all over California. Shop for one, together, that can help the two of you make a sound asset division agreement. The money you spend on making sure your agreement makes legal sense will, I am fairly sure, be less than the money you might have to spend to defend a mistake that you unintentionally created by trying to handle this matter without one.