When a judgment of divorce is not self-executing in respect of any division of property ordered, does the court have jurisdiction to make further orders to compel obedience to the order?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Bonner v. Superior Court, 133 Cal.Rptr. 592, 63 Cal.App.3d 156 (Cal. App. 1976):
To the extent that a judgment of dissolution is not self-executing in respect of any division of property therein ordered, the court retains jurisdiction to make such further orders as are appropriate to compel obedience to its judgment. In Brown v. Brown, 22 Cal.App.3d 82, 83, 99 [63 Cal.App.3d 166] Cal.Rptr. 311, a judgment of divorce ordered that certain stock 'shall be divided equally.' Thereafter, the wife sold 475 shares of the stock and remitted only a portion of one-half of the proceeds to which her husband was entitled. On application of the husband, the court made an order that the wife pay the husband the unpaid portion of his half. Affirming the order, the court said:
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