At the end of the day, divorce is a financial transaction wrapped in complex human emotions. Part of the divorce lawyer’s mission is to try to gently unwrap the emotion
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A Divorce Lawyer’s Real Estate Report for 2022
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Divorce lawyers are not real estate agents and we are not mortgage brokers. But in any given year we move a lot of residential real estate as splitting couples either…
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Home Buyers Throwing from the 3 Point Line May Not Be Hitting “The Drain”
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For better or for worse, divorce lawyers get a front row seat to the home real estate market because their business often involves selling a family’s most prominent asset. The…
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BUYING OUT A HOUSE IN DIVORCE. UPDATE COMPS!
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This will be short, for once. Divorce often involves one spouse buying out another from the marital residence. Best advice was, and still is, home values are such that paying…
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NAVIGATING A HOME TRANSFER IN DIVORCE
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Just about every divorce case involves a house and its corresponding mortgage. In a small number of cases parties agree that dissolution of the marriage is also an opportune time…
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A LOOK AT THE HOUSING MARKET
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As I write this, it is sunny and 55 degrees. Realtors ordinarily would be calling back customers from the weekend open houses. The market should be not just brisk but…
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