Build and check a California Schedule of Assets and Debts

What the form actually does

Form FL-142 lists known assets and debts and can accompany the Declaration of Disclosure. It is not the judgment and it does not decide characterization. It is the inventory from which those later decisions are made.

A useful schedule must do more than look filled. Every category should be answered, each figure needs a date and source, secured debt must stay attached to the asset it secures, and the line 18 and line 26 totals must agree with the rows.

Two safe ways in

• Build from statements: answer every form category affirmatively, including “none,” and compute totals from the entries.
• Read an existing text-layer PDF: extract the filed rows in the browser and compare the computed asset total with the form’s own line 18.
• Save the working matter as a local file. The public application has no account, database, analytics tag or upload endpoint.

Where the form stops

The form does not ask the dates of marriage and separation, each spouse’s age, whether service credit began before marriage, whether separate money funded a jointly titled home, or whether two descriptions on opposing schedules refer to the same account. Those facts change the analysis, so the workspace asks for them separately instead of pretending the form is the whole case.

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