In marriage, title doesn't matter. Titles to houses, cars, accounts and businesses can all get overridden by the statute and court system in a divorce.   I often do consultations where people say things like, “I'm married, but we keep everything separate.” They operate under the assumption that, because each party has assets in their own name, it’s separate property under the law. They think that the default in a marriage tips to individual title, and that the only things that are jointly (more...)