If the divorce is finalized prior to resolving your property issues, it means you are losing your right to equitable distribution. This means you cannot go to court and order your spouse to share marital assets with you, you cannot ask the court to divide assets or debts and you cannot force him to give you a share of any assets in his name.
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What am I giving up if I choose to divorce prior to having a complete property settlement? I understand that if all items aren’t agreed to prior to absoluate divorce then whatever isn’t can be identifed as ‘pending’ in the divorce proceedings. If that is true, where exactly is that documented? Thanks in advance.
So I did a pro se divorce in 2014 and the marital property was not addressed at the time. Even though my name is still on the property/deed am I no longer entitled to rights to the property? My ex-husband will be remarrying soon will his new wife have any financial interest in the home?
If your name is still on the deed then you still have ownership rights in the property. Since it was not addressed prior to the absolute divorce being granted, you cannot ask the court to help divide the marital property.
Your ex-husband’s new wife will not have any financial or ownership interest in the house because your ex-husband acquired it prior to the date of marriage with his new wife.
Anna Ayscue
Attorney with Rosen Law Firm Cary • Chapel Hill • Durham • Raleigh • Wake Forest
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If my ex-husband wants to sell the house then he would need my permission to do so, correct? Or if I want my name off the residence, he would have to refinance correct? In either case can I put something in writing regarding to what amount I want (if we mutually agree to terms) get it notarized and submit it to the courts.
Yes, if your ex-husband wants to sell the house then he would need your permission too because you would also have to sign the deed to the buyer.
If you want your name off of the deed, then you would have to sign a deed as the grantor granting your ex-husband your interest in the house. He would have to refinance in order to take your name off the mortgage.
You can draw up a contract with specific terms and responsibilities with deadlines and have each of you sign it with your signatures notarized. This would become a contract but you would not be able to file it with the courts.
Anna Ayscue
Attorney with Rosen Law Firm Cary • Chapel Hill • Durham • Raleigh • Wake Forest
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