Jones

BACKGROUND

The following facts are alleged in the complaint:

Jones and Hilliker were married in 1981 and separated in December 1986. In

March 1986, Jones went to Army basic training in Alabama for eight weeks. Before she

left for Alabama, she and Hilliker had been living in an apartment in Corona, California.

When she returned from Alabama, Hilliker told her that he had rented a house located at

607 Highland Road in Lake Elsinore, California. In fact, Hilliker had purchased the

house, on or about April 2, 1986. Hilliker had falsely represented on the deed and other

documents related to the purchase that he was “an unmarried man.”

Hilliker never disclosed to Jones that he had purchased the house. In December

1986, Hilliker asked Jones for a divorce and presented her with a marital settlement

agreement. Hilliker told Jones that the agreement listed all of the property they owned—

not including the residence—and Jones reasonably relied on his representation. Jones

signed the agreement.

Judgment of dissolution and division of property based on the marital settlement

agreement was entered on September 3, 1987. In 2010, another ex-husband of Jones told

her that Hilliker…