Divorce Support Forums: Help: Immovable Property Question

What does your lawyer say?

If you don't have a lawyer and are trying to figure this one out on your own, it's going to be hard to get the details you need to talk tothe court abotu, that's something people spend YEARS in law school learning about how to present...

But if you're just worried because you can never be sure, and your lawyer has told you to relax but you are having a hard time with that... think of this.

People get divorced all the time where they have a house in one state & a condo or vacation house in a different state & no one makes them change the divorce to a different state just becasue teh HOUSE is there. They go to a different state becasue the PEOPLE live there, but not because of the HOUSE. You don't have to file 2 or 3 different divorce cases just because you have 2 or 3 different pieces of real estate scattered around the country (this is particularly important for divorces where people live close to a state line and maybe own a rental home on the other side of the state line... or for people who live up north & have a vacation home in teh sun belt, or maybe who have two or three time shares that are in different parts of the country). It happens all the time and no one has to divorce each other two or three times just to take care of two or three different pieces of real estate.

The divorce is abotu YOU, officially, not the real estate. Realistically, the real estate will have to be resolved, but the subject matter of a divorce is the people and the marriage, the partnership... and the partnership has cars and retirement accounts and children, maybe, and sometimes also a house & a rental house and a vacation condo and a time share and a cabin in the mountains and a share of a business that owns an oil well in another state.

If you've got a lawyer working on this, don't sweat it. It's a pain in the neck, like re-inventing the wheel to explain a very basic principle that was established hundreds of years ago... but your divorce certainly CAN take place in the place where you've lived for the past 4 years and he can't stop that.

NOW, if you're wanting to get control over the property, you're probably going to have to take special steps to get a court in Louisiana to force a man in Viet Nam to sign over his rights to part of a property in New York... THAT might be tricky... getting any execution of the final decree one that happens... but just getting divorced should NOT be a problem.

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