Originally Posted by ratbastid

Well, sure, I mean, that's completely different. And the bank had nothing to do with it; that's an action the divorcing parties could choose to take anyway to get the assets out of joint ownership, and in that case the court ordered them to. In my (granted, second-hand) experience of divorces, that's pretty rare. There's usually some sort of joint asset hanging out. StellaLuna is being impacted by her ex's late car payments even as we speak. I've never seen the court step in to force dissolution of joint assets--that's usually left to the parties to sort out, though I can see that it might happen, particularly in very acrimonious cases where leaving anything jointly owned is a very bad idea. Maybe it has to do with how North Carolina handles these things, I don't know.