What will happen to my house during a divorce? How a marital residence is divided during a divorce depends upon the circumstances.
If there is an agreement, the court will consent to the agreement between the parties. If there is no agreement, there are numerous orders that the court can make based on the situation at hand.
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Regarding how property is divided and what may happen to a person’s marital residence, many people refer to it as “my house or our house”. It depends upon each circumstance.
Number one, if there’s an agreement, then whatever that agreement is, the court will generally uphold that agreement and consent to the parties’ agreement.
If there’s not an agreement, and one or the other person wants to stay in the home and can afford it, there are numerous ways that the court can either allow one party to stay there and execute a deed of trust to secure assumption meaning to continue to pay on the mortgage.
Another way is for the judge to order that the home must be refinanced within a certain number of days. And if there’s a failure to refinance within 120 to 180 days, whatever the judge might order, the house can be sold.
And generally, the way the proceeds are split is in a just and right division.
A lot of people refer to it as 50/50. But you don’t know whether 52/48 or 45/55 or what it is. It’s called a just and right division.
The court will look back, and the final decree will have something in there that talks about how those funds are distributed if, in fact, a receiver needs to be appointed and the house needs to be sold.
