rosenkrieg
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CA
We are both Germans and live back in Germany. We have been married for 17 years.
A couple of years ago we jointly bought an empty lot for later retirement in California (Tuolumne Cty), paid for out of my funds. No mortgage on the lot.
Wife committed adultery last summer, still is with her friend and then moved out in December. Seems like divorce will happen later this year.
I plan to later sell the CA lot to fund building a house elsewhere.
We are negotiating a separation agreement in Germany whereby she would deed her 50% of the lot over to me in exchange for some shares. It looks like she will sign the agreement which raises the following questions.
What kind of deed would we have to use such that I then own the lot 100% and can later sell the lot without having to ask for her consent or having to pay her a share ?
What special language/phrasing would have to be in the deed ?
Or do we or she need to sign something else in addition to a deed? One real estate lawyer in NC mailed me a "Free Traders Agreement" we should sign in addition to a "General Warranty Deed" for a lot we also own in NC, but I got confused as to if this agreement would work retroactive for property acquired before the FTA was signed, and that lawyer never got back to my answer. So I asked the same question as here for our NC lot in a NC-forum, and there a very helpful lawyer gave me specific wording to put into a "special warranty deed" referencing the German separation agreement and all sorts of NC statutes.
So how could I find someone in CA to help me in a similar way for the CA lot in order to set up the right deed and/or contract to get this transfer done the right way?
Thanks a lot for your help. All of this is difficult enough when you are a native American, but even more so if you are a "resident alien" presetly living in Germany.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
We are both Germans and live back in Germany. We have been married for 17 years.
A couple of years ago we jointly bought an empty lot for later retirement in California (Tuolumne Cty), paid for out of my funds. No mortgage on the lot.
Wife committed adultery last summer, still is with her friend and then moved out in December. Seems like divorce will happen later this year.
I plan to later sell the CA lot to fund building a house elsewhere.
We are negotiating a separation agreement in Germany whereby she would deed her 50% of the lot over to me in exchange for some shares. It looks like she will sign the agreement which raises the following questions.
What kind of deed would we have to use such that I then own the lot 100% and can later sell the lot without having to ask for her consent or having to pay her a share ?
What special language/phrasing would have to be in the deed ?
Or do we or she need to sign something else in addition to a deed? One real estate lawyer in NC mailed me a "Free Traders Agreement" we should sign in addition to a "General Warranty Deed" for a lot we also own in NC, but I got confused as to if this agreement would work retroactive for property acquired before the FTA was signed, and that lawyer never got back to my answer. So I asked the same question as here for our NC lot in a NC-forum, and there a very helpful lawyer gave me specific wording to put into a "special warranty deed" referencing the German separation agreement and all sorts of NC statutes.
So how could I find someone in CA to help me in a similar way for the CA lot in order to set up the right deed and/or contract to get this transfer done the right way?
Thanks a lot for your help. All of this is difficult enough when you are a native American, but even more so if you are a "resident alien" presetly living in Germany.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?