If you received a divorce decree in Arizona and that decree didn’t address all your property, you may be left wondering what to do. While the courts generally like finality in their cases, and accordingly don’t like to reopen actions after issuing final decrees, it is still possible to dispose of disputes over un-addressed property.

This situation can arise in a couple of different contexts. For example, you and your spouse may have tried to do it on your own and simply forgot to add something. Sometimes one spouse intentionally conceals assets that the other finds out about later on.

In the recent Arizona Court of Appeals decision of In Re the Marriage of Rinegar, issued in November of 2012, the Court reaffirmed that you can indeed reopen a case if there are assets omitted from your divorce decree. The reopening can be in the divorce action itself, or in some instances, can be in a separate civil suit.

So if you left something out of your decree, it’s not necessarily too late to fix it. If you have a question about your divorce order, ask a family law attorney for help.