Just trying to sort through & get the facts.....not really trying to pry.....but I'm curious.....have you actually read the papers you signed or are you just taking your H's word for telling you that you signed your rights away......you are still pretty trusting of what you are being told by your H. Honestly, I would demand a copy of the papers you signed so that YOU KNOW exactly what you signed & not taking your H's word for it....I honestly wouldn't trust him any more than I trusted my H

So if you signed anything, that would have been a quitclaim as Calif is a community property state. If I were you I would march back into the place that you signed the paperwork & demand a copy of what you signed & if it was a quitclaim....I would demand that you were tricked/coerced into signing it thinking that you were signing the title to the property or being added onto the loan & that you were lied to by your H about what you were signing..

Of course, if the house goes down in value & you aren't on the loan & have signed away your rights on the house then your H's the one that EATS the LOSS in the property value & in reality...he would have ended up screwing himself rather than you. I ended up signing a quitclaim for our house in Calif when he ended up getting a loan modification after I left because he quit paying property taxes, then quit paying the house payment & never talked to the lender.....found that out when they came calling me. My problem is that I signed away my rights but my name is still on the loan....lending company said that I need to fax them the divorce paperwork when I finally get it finalized...haven't had the money to do that....other more critical things required for my money.

Here in KY, my lawyer calls it a dowry state......where even though I bought my farm with my inheritance money & my H never signed the title (I payed cash for my farm)....when I set up my farm into an LLC to protect it against my H's financial irresponsibility, he actually had to sign a quitclaim on my farm because in this slightly backward state, because we were still married, because it was purchased with my inheritance, he also had a claim on it (LOL...he wouldn't have been smart enough to know that but wanted to make it LEGAL). But he knew that my farm was NOT HIS in the first place & that he was NOT WELCOME here.....so it wasn't like I tricked him into signing anything.

If you can't get the quitclaim resolved, I'm sure that a lawyer would be able to resolve the fact that your H tricked you into signing something believing it was something else you were signing.....yep, it's NEVER good to trust anyone....not even a H....you ALWAYS NEED to KNOW EVERYTHING that you do in your life & never take anyone's word for anything.