“Escape routes exist when you are a child. All kinds of escape routes are possible. Then when you grow up they vanish and then you have to grow up and live without them." - Nicholas Gage, Eleni

Bigamy is a felony.  On February 16, 1991, James K. Olson married Morgan Olson in South Lake Tahoe with a California Confidential Marriage Certificate.   Mr. Olson signed it certifying his prior husband and wife relationship with Mrs. Olson, which had gone back to February 1982.  According to that Confidential Marriage Certificate Mr. Olson was previously married once before, so this wife was his second one.  Or did Mr. Olson lie on this Confidential Marriage Certificate?  Mr. Olson has admitted in both California and Nevada courts that he reconciled with the Reno Mrs. Olson in July 1996. 

“On June 14, 2000, Jim twice forged his wife’s (Morgan) name on the purchase of a car when he signed “J. Morgan Olson” with his “JKO” initials next to it.”  In 2000, Mr. Olson forged the Reno Mrs. Olson’s married name in his purchase of a car in San Rafael, California. 

Mr. Olson got a Nevada Living Trust amendment notarized in October 2000 in Marin County, California that the Reno Mrs. Olson is his wife, in compliance with the Marin County, California 1996 MSA. 

Mr. Olson had several years of Reno homeowners insurance with the Reno Mrs. Olson as his wife. 

Mr. Olson has had for several years a Nevada Living Trust with the Reno Mrs. Olson as his wife, in compliance with the Marin County, California 1996 MSA. 

Mr. Olson claims he is also married to a California Mrs. Olson since 2004. 

Mr. Olson’s 1995 attorney prepared an August 10, 1995 Marital Settlement Agreement (MSA) for the Marin County, California court.  It confirms there was no final hearing, the box wasn’t filled in for a remarry date, the lack of a standard clause about reconciling, Mr. Olson was to pay Mrs. Olson $15,000, and that the case was sealed.

The court had left these issues unresolved as it knew Mr. Olson would again reconcile.  Judge Michael Dufficy, the same judge in Mr. Olson’s last three divorce filings, recognized that Mr. Olson’s credibility was gone as Mr. Olson kept making the same complaints and allegations then (as now) but was sleeping with Mrs. Olson the whole time and kept reconciling with her.  So in the fourth divorce when Mrs. Olson said she was moving to Reno to get away from the drama, where she wanted to buy a house, the judge gave her permission to do so.  That in matters relating to her husband Jim Olson, for the convenience of the court and her so she wouldn’t have to keep coming back to the court for the court’s signature (loan applications, offers, counters, counters-to-counters, inspections, tax returns, etc.) she could operate as a single person as Mr. Olson adamantly refused to sign anything. 

Mrs. Olson bought 13870 Mt. Babcock, Reno, NV 89506 in July 1995.  That was before the MSA, and before the August 10, 1995, Marin court hearing.  The Quit Claim clause in the MSA had that Mr. Olson was supposed to Quit Claim his community property interest of that property to Mrs. Olson.  Mr. Olson refused and that clause was crossed out at his insistence.  Cora Lancelle, Mrs. Olson’s attorney, dryly asked “but why not, is he again reconciling?”  Mr. Olson’s attorney said, “Oh no Mr. Olson really wants a divorce this time.”  Ms. Lancelle sarcastically said “But Helen, that’s what he said the previous three times while continuing to sleep with her the whole time.”  Mrs. Olson said “no big deal as Jim will soon reconcile with me anyway making it a point not worth arguing over” and agreed to the cross out of the Quit Claim clause. 

“As Mrs. Olson was walking out of that August 10, 1995 court hearing, Ms. Lancelle gave up trying not to laugh.  Mr. Olson’s attorney was glowering at her and Mrs. Olson.  Mr. Olson was looking at the floor kicking it with his foot.   Judge Dufficy was trying not to laugh.  Judge Dufficy called out “good luck in your new home in Reno and especially with Jim.”” 

Since Mr. Olson refused to sign a Quit Claim and crossed out that section in the MSA, he retained a community property interest in that house.  His attorney then even commented on it in court. 

Mr. Olson showed up in Reno in September 1995 and resumed his physical, emotional and financial relationship with Mrs. Olson, who never wanted a divorce. 

Mr. Olson never paid Mrs. Olson for the community asset division in the MSA.  Mr. Olson has admitted in several court papers that he reconciled with Mrs. Olson in Reno, Nevada in July 1996.  Mr. Olson told the Reno Mrs. Olson he had dismissed his fourth Marin divorce filing.  He continued to act married to her through a series of behaviors and conduct for the next 10 ½ years. 

He wore his wedding ring.  He introduced and held himself out as her husband and she as his wife. 

Shortly after his reconciliation, Mr. Olson obtained homeowners insurance on their Reno home at 13870 Mt. Babcock, Reno, in the name of James and Morgan Olson, husband and wife.  He certified that property as his primary residence. 

Mr. Olson then funded a Nevada Living Trust together with Mrs. Olson with them as equal co-trustees.  It held title to all their Reno houses and bank accounts.  That trust is still in existence today. 

In summer 2000, Mr. Olson forged the Reno Mrs. Olson’s married name in his purchase of a car in San Rafael, California. 

Mr. Olson had a reconciliation acknowledgment notarized in October 2000 in Marin by a Marin notary acknowledging his July 1996 reconciliation and reaffirmation of his February 16, 2001 wedding vows with Mrs. Olson. 

In April 2002, the Olsons bought 5242 Echo Ave in Reno as a rental and Mr. Olson obtained a landlord’s policy on it with him as the primary and his wife as the secondary insured.  They still own that property today.  According to Farmers Insurance April 29, 2002 print date:                         

     Primary Insured          James K Olson, PO Box 8401, Reno NV 89507

     Policy Type                Lnlrd Prot

     Property Address       5242 Echo Ave Reno NV 89506 

In early October 2006, Mrs. Olson mailed Mr. Olson, at his request, $20,000 out of a home equity account. 

In late October 2006, Mrs. Olson gets a phone call from a woman that “Jim Olson had just died in California.”  Mr. Olson, in violation of the July 12, 1996 Marin County, California court judgment, surfaces and immediately claims a remarry to another.  He had still failed to pay the Reno Mrs. Olson for the community assets ordered in that judgement. 

According to the Reno Police report, after the Reno Mrs. Olson changed its locks, Mr. Olson then broke into and ransacked their then Reno home at 12260 Camel Rock Dr.  It was in a desperate effort to retrieve and destroy the original documents of his reconciliation, their Nevada Living Trust, and his love letters.  Attorney Jill Whitbeck has those originals. 

Mr. Olson then filed in Marin Court CV070655 that it determine his marital status with the Reno Mrs. Olson.  That part of the case was dismissed because the proper venue is in Family Law Court, and in Family Law Court in Nevada as Nevada has jurisdiction over them with their Nevada governed Living Trust, Reno, Nevada homeowners insurance on their Reno properties, and Reno witnesses etc.  Mr. Olson’s story had become rather hysterical in its presentation of its acerbic and churlish allegations. 

In early 2007, attorney Schoonover claims to have written Mrs. Olson April 2, 2002 at their 13870 Mt. Babcock, Reno address (although she never saw it until their first Reno hearing five years later) “You have Mr. Olson’s home address.  If there is anything you need to communicate to him, contact him there, not at work.”  This writing is the FIRST evidence that Mr. Olson was attempting to keep his husband and wife life with the Reno Mrs. Olson a secret from his work in Marin County, California. 

Four witnesses then testified in Reno court as to Mr. Olson continuing to see Mrs. Olson in Reno representing himself as her husband through September 2006. 

Divorce is not a handy vehicle for the summary disposal of old and used wives.  Which is what Mr. Olson smugly alleges he did July 12, 1996, divorce the Reno Mrs. Olson, while talking outside the other side of his mouth, his admission that he reconciled his marriage with her in Reno in July 1996. 

Reno attorney Jill Whitbeck pointed out in Mrs. Olson’s Opposition to Motion to Dismiss Mrs. Olson’s divorce on Page 7 Line 28 “. . . clearly there exists a dispute as to assets and debts obtained during the course of their reconciliation.”  The Olson’s MSA/July 12, 1996 “divorce” is in question due to its omissions, contradictions and discrepancies.  The Olsons husband and wife reconciliation went to October 2006 as clearly proved (preponderance of the evidence) with four current four independent witnesses, their Reno homeowners and landlord’s insurance, and their Nevada governed Living Trust.  The Reno judge found “Mr. Olson not credible.” 

In the Marin Court CV 070655 filing Mr. Olson claims “Olson is spending his time with Alexandra while he is married to his second wife.”   Yes, Mr. Olson was doing exactly that as the Reno Mrs. Olson is his second wife assuming he did not lie on their marriage certificate and he’s had other marriages. 

The Reno Mrs. Olson remains mysteriously MIA since July 2007. 

Sources are California and Nevada court public documents, MSA, Nevada Living Trust, love letters, four witnesses testimony in Reno court, San Rafael car purchase documents, photographs, Farmers Insurance documents, Washoe County public records, February 16, 1991 Marriage Certificate.