  Circumbinary (CB) disks have been proposed as a mechanism to extract orbital
angular momentum from cataclysmic variables (CVs) during their evolution. As
proposed by Taam & Spruit, these disks extend outwards to several a.u. and
should be detected observationally via their infrared flux or by absorption
lines in the ultraviolet spectra of the CV. We have made use of archival
HST/STIS spectra as well as our own near-IR imaging to search for observational
evidence of such CB disks in seven CVs. Based on the null result, we place an
upper limit on the column density of the disk of N_H~10^17 cm^-2.
