questions about spouse debt

[kittycat98]

I live in California and just hired my attorney and started the process. I have been reading up a storm on this forum and its helped a lot. I did not really understand community debt and well I am still confused. Most of our debt (41,000) is from credit cards I had before we were married. The other ones are all in his name and amount to about 7000 but they were used during the time we were married. If only I file can we wipe out his cards? And if yes.... should I stop paying on those cards as well? If I do that won't his credit be screwed up anyway? I already stopped paying all mine and that was hard as I had never even been late before. Plus my phone ringing off the hook. So stressed out and will be glad when this is over. Thanks for any input you can give. Waiting on call from attorney as I asked them the same thing. When we had meeting I did not fully understand community debt.