Deb:

I agree with Ellie. Get your financial ducks in a row. I wish I would have before I filed and I have had a fight ever since. You can legally close any joint accounts. I personally would take half of any bank accounts and open my own account. Close any joint credit card acounts (my H tried to run up the credit card the week after I filed for divorce. Luckily the Judge made him pay it). Open your own credit card account. Get the account numbers for all of the utilities. Keep all of your financial papers on you at all times. I carried my stuff around in a big bag so he could never get at it.) Take pictures of the content of the house.

You cannot legally kick him out of the house. If the house is jointly owned you have to let him live there. The only way you can have him removed is if you get a restraining order and in most states you have to have substantial proof that you are in danger. (This is something I am dealing with. I moved out because he was harassing me. I can move back in any time I want but I can't kick him out because he has never threatened me in front of anyone.)

And whatever you do, don't move out. You don't want to end up climbing through bathroom windows like I have.