Marriage of Kouprina and Kouprine CA4/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A judgment dissolving the marriage of Husband and Wife was entered on April 8, 2013. Among other things, the judgment provided that “[e]ach party is equally responsible for one half of the credit card debt in the amount of $23,811.29,” which amounted to $11,905.65 each. Husband was ordered to pay spousal support but was allowed to deduct $200 from the spousal support payment each month and apply it toward the amount Wife owed for the credit card debt. Based on this arrangement, we can assume Husband was the party responsible for the task of making the payments to the credit card companies, although the judgment of dissolution does not make that arrangement explicit. Husband paid spousal support from April 2013 until August 2014, at which point spousal support was reduced to zero because of changed circumstances. During that period, Wife paid $3,400 toward her half of the assigned credit card debt through the monthly deduction of $200 from the spousal support payments. That left Wife, as of September 2014, with a remaining balance of $8,505 on her half of the assigned community credit card debt.

2 In January 2015, Husband sought an order…