This is the only one where anybody did anything about it.”

Part Forty: The Dissolution

I filed on the eleventh of October 2024 and it was final on the third of September 2025, which is eleven months, and that is fast for a twenty-two-year marriage with a house in it.

Arizona is a community property state, which means that in principle everything acquired during the marriage is split in half, including the debts, and I did not understand the second half of that sentence until my lawyer Noor Haddadin explained it to me in the November.

A debt incurred during a marriage is presumed to be a community debt.