Articles on Property
How do I Add my Wife’s Name to my Deed of Trust?
We live in Colorado & I want to add my wife’s name to our deed of trust. a 50 /50 situation. I’m assuming a quit claim deed is the way to go? My husband and I have been married for 30 years. 18 years ago I had a brief affair and became pregnant. My husband is named as my 17- year-old’s father on her birth certificate. He is aware of the affair, but has raised my daughter as his own. Now, the wife of the man whom I had the affair with wants to know if he is the father of my daughter. Can she force me to have my daughter tested? Can she force her husband to be tested? I owned a home before my marriage. Now I am getting divorced and my husband has been added to the deed. Can he only get a portion of the house since the time we were married (3 years)? Is he entitled to more? My Mother has been my father’s conservator & guardian for close to 6 years in the state of Michigan. My mother exhausted over 90% of their liquid assets into his care costs. The only thing she has left is the house. Was she entitled to any percentage of their combined liquid assets? Can she sell the house to make-up the percentage that is owed to her? My husband bought rental property several years ago after we got married. The purchase was made in his name only. He now wishes to sell that property and use it to buy a lot to sell cars in. I do not want him to do so. Can he sell without my consent? Is there anything that I can do to protect any assets, such as 401k, collectibles, etc, before I get married, assuming that the spouse will not sign a prenuptial agreement? I married my husband when he was incarcerated in a NY State Prison. Is he entitled to any assets I acquire while he is incarcerated? Specifically I am looking to purchase a home with a partner who is concerned with my husbands legal right to my assets since we are legally married. He was incarcerated before I married him and will remain incarcerated for at least the next 8-13 years. What are his rights? My wife’s mother and father purchased a property that has since then turned into a very successful lodge. About ten years ago they divorced, but he did not sell his half to her-nor was she awarded it in court. He later died. Now My wife’s mother and current husband are trying to sell the place. We think that my wife’s father’s half ownership of property would go to his daughter (my wife) when he died, and therefore she would be half owner of the property. Is this the case? A few years ago, I asked my wife to move out of the condo that we purchased together, and she asked for some equity out of the property. We have since divorced. After filing the quit claim deed with the county, it was returned to me indicating that more detailed information is required to identify the property for recording purposes. Is the quit claim deed therefore invalid, or does the fact that she signed it at least show that the intent of the exchange of money and property between us still intact? Can I file an amendment to the original quit claim deed with the additional identifying information for the property requested by the county without her signature? I was divorced in Oct/99 my ex is now going back to court to recover property that she feels was not divided properly. The wording in the agreement states “remainder of furnishing to be divided equally” but does not specify any particular items. She has named items she wants and the Judge appears to be going along with this. Is there a statue of limitations on any of this? It has been seven years since our divorce. She has not claimed these items until now. I live in New York State. My fiance & I purchased a house together in the state of Maryland. We would like to write up an agreement that if something happens to me, he gets 100% ownership of the house and everything in the house and if something happens to him I would get 100% ownership and everything in the house. Is there a legal document that we can pick up at Staples and have notarized? Would the document be a legal and binding in the State of Maryland, or would it be in our best interest to get an attorney? When I was married with my ex-husband we bought a house together, then later 7 years later we divorced and I was granted the house. It says in the decree that he was to get $11,500 plus 9% annum interest until I sold the house or I lost custody of the kids or they turned 18. Soon after the divorce I lost the house in a foreclosure with the bank, the house was taken from me and taken to the courthouse to sell. I was able to buy the house in full with my parent’s money at the auction’s asking price. Now I am selling the house and the house in under my name for the past 9 years and wants his part of the money that was stated in the decree. Does he have a case with this? “My husband and I live in Louisiana. Our marriage is his 2nd marriage. In his 1st marriage, his estranged wife became pregnant during a time when they had been separated on and off. They reunited right before the birth of a second child in 1995. (They already had one child together who was born in [...] My mother does not speak to any of her children and ex-husband and has taken sole custody of the family house. She will not let any of the children in the house. My dad took my mom to court to get a court mandated date to allow the children to get our belongings. I cannot go to the house on that date because I am at university out of state. I would like to get a second date when I can go into the house once and for all to collect my property. I have tried contacting my mom through e-mail and family friends to avoid legal fees and having to go to court but there is no response. I do not know what my options are. My soon to be ex husband and his father own the house in which me and the children occupy. Well, they want to sell house. Do I have any rights in this matter? I don’t want to move. I don’t think it is in best interest of children to move. The house was bought during the marriage. My husband owns a business from before we were married. He has not filed his business or personal taxes for at least 4 maybe 5 years. I was not aware of this situation until about a year after we were married. I own a rental property from before we were married. I have a CD worth $14,000 that I acquired after we were married but it was from my divorce settlement from 3 years prior. My questions are what will be in jeopardy as far as my assets, can there be a lein put on either of my houses, can they take my money? I am getting divorced from my wife (disillusionment). The car that she drives is in my name. She would like me to keep the car in my name and she will make the payments to the bank. In the disillusionment agreement, it states that I am not liable if she should get in an accident, default on the payments, etc. Will this hold up in a court of law? 10 years ago my husband and I divorced. per the divorce decree he was to “maintain” an insurance policy that was in affect. He did NOT, so I made the monthly premiums myself. He is now deceased and his estate is being entered into probate. My Husband and I bought a house in Phoenix, Arizona. My credit was bad at the time of purchase so his name was solely on the Mortgage as well as the Deed. Before we divorced I paid the Mortgage and all bills by myself for two years and shared the Mortgage and all bills for an additional four years out of a total of eight years of ownership. In the divorce decree, she had six months in which to move off of the property they owned together so that it could be sold. She has not moved nor has she made any attempt to move. If I own property in state X and I am brought to court in state Y for a civil tort, can the court issue a judgment lien against my real property in state X? However, since he purchased the home in his name only, and his name is the only name of the deed, would I be entitled to my part of the equitable increase in value if we were to divorce? I left my husband and bought a house with money from his business, and hid it from him. Then I bought a second house, and hid that from him too. I’m being evicted from the second house and can’t find a buyer for the first house to pay off the second house. Have I commited fraud? What should I do? My boyfriend and his wife’s divorce was just finalized earlier this year. In the divorce decree, she had six months in which to move off of the property they owned together so that it could be sold. She won’t leave. What can we do? My son-in-law and his uncle inherited a peice of land with a mobile home on it, my daughter who has been married to him helped him payoff his uncle for the land recently. My son-in-law actually took her end of year bonus (this year 2006)and paid his uncle off so that the land would be all his but with them divorcing we don’t know if my daughter has any legal right to the land since it was left to my son-in-law. He was married for 10 years. Can his ex collect any of his social security benefits when he starts collecting it? My husband and I bought a home about a month ago. We haven’t signed the mortgage papers yet but he wishes to have his name off the mortgage and I would like his name off the house as well. How can we do this? I have been divorced for 3 years, my ex-wife contacted me and said that she was going to go back to court to try and get 1/2 my 401 K and pension. In the divorce agreement it states that I retain all rights to this. Can she reopen this after 3 years? What property may I take when leaving my spouse? How one divides a family business, and the property associated with it, depends on many factors, including the state in which the action is taking place, whether it is a community property state, and what the parties would like to have happen with the business. If a spouse doesn’t willingly leave the family home when the other spouse asks them to, the other spouse may end up seeking a restraining order. Just because a deed is in the name of “a married person, as their separate property” doesn’t necessarily mean that the property is really their separate property. After being married only a few months, this couple separated and she is filing for divorce. Can he can claim some part of the house she owned before the marriage? Community property states have strict guidelines about how marital property will be divided and distributed upon divorce or death.
