When you get a divorce, there will be many questions that will have to be settled including who gets custody of the kids, how will visitation be decided and who gets the property that was accumulated during the marriage? A property divorce is one where there is likely to be a lot of property that needs to be divided up including cars, cash, homes and other assets both real and unrealized, including stocks, certificates of deposit and other intangibles. There are nine community property states in the country: Washington, California, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Texas. Community states hold that everything that is acquired after the marriage is owned equally and must therefore be split that same way. Forty-one states, plus the District of Colombia are equitable distribution states which states that the property bought after the marriage is jointly owned but does not always split things that exact way. Employing the services of a divorce lawyer will help you with your property divorce.