Dissoluton in Ca.

Lois,
Personally, I don't have a clue on how YOU would dissolve YOUR association, as you have told us nothing about your association, including, where located, how many units, some history of your association, condo or HOA, etc, etc, etcd. If I knew this I would advice you hire competent legal help for starters, make your case and try and get the membership to agree with it, according to advice of legal council.
Is it possible you have hired the wrong lawyers? I serious doubt we are going to tell you the lawyer you hired is wrong, and then proceed to tell you what is the right legal advice.

I do appreciate what you are saying about your conflicts you seem to be having internally. These things can grow from a tiny little issue and end up all consuming. You mention a personal grudge, if it is an owner, your management needs to resolve that, if it your management with the personal grudge, you have more trouble than is on the surface. Has all this turmoil been aired in a Townhall type meeting? Consider that, if you all can put forth leadership that can control the meeting and make it productive, it can't end up with a bunch of folks yelling and when all is said and done, more is said than done. It also sounds as if you have some local zoning issues you have to work out. It may be imperative that you all get back on stable ground before you can even talk about dissolution. You would be much better equipped to handle dissolution from a position of strength than weakness.

So.... if the city isn't going to accept legal responsibility for maintaining the road, then who will? The association. Get it? If you cant get the city to accept responsibility for the road, or etc., you cant dissolve your association.

So what you want to do first is: Spend all your time on getting the city to take over the road. After your association has no more common areas, dissolving it will be pretty easy.

Sorry, but you cant just throw up your hands and close the association down. Its not that simple. If you do, the state can appoint someone (at your cost) to manage the association properly and you will be forced to pay whatever that costs. Which could lead "you" into bankruptcy, but not the association. Association bankruptcy usually occurs with associations with large outstanding loans, not routine maintenance. And even then, the members are the ones who get screwed in the end.

thanks for the great answers......to sum up, our assn. is way beyond reconciliation. We have restraining orders, settlement conferences, probably 10 lawyers on all the sides, multiple lawsuits, etc. etc. it's a long road estimated at $400,000 in legal fees. D&O insurer failed us, another story. Anyone know how to get them to step up?
One of the lawyers suggested dissolution but since a prior lawyer said our city had never signed off on one, we kind of let it go but now we see no other option. I have begun the process of contacting proper city planning people, possible legislative allies to help change the requirement of a 100% yes vote to dissolve, and so forth.
What I would really like to find is an association that actually accomplished dissolution to use as a model. A website I found mentioned in passing that 1900 assn.'s have dissolved. We are well aware of perils of receiverships, bankruptcies etc. What I would like to do is start a movement against what I see as an incestuous industry whose groups represent lawyers and managers, not homeowners. If someone can actually point me to a homeowner group whose support isn't mainly industry types, i will buy lunch.