Filing a lien on husbands house - PA / NJ

[Bethy]

PA / NJ I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this. Got married 4 years ago w/o having Equifax's done on each other. This was my 2nd marriage, his 3rd - both had kids and he hates one of mine. Right after the marriage, he got very verbally abusive and he was about to lose his house & vehicle. I took out a loan (he had under 500 credit score so he couldn't get a loan) and we both signed a generic "I owe you" for the money. Now that he's moving out (we've been in marriage counseling since month 3) I want to put a lien on his house as he never tried to sell it, and never paid me for any of the money back (I'm a secretary). hHe makes twice I do but has no money anywhere saved. We reduced the amt. on the IOU to 15k (it was 24k, but I reduced it due to work he'd done on the house) but he has not helped pay for any of the bills for the past 8 months either.

I live in PA, his house is in NJ. Can I put a lien on his house? what are the first steps?

 

[ecmst12]

You can't put a lein on anything without a judgement and you'd be behind any mortgage holders on the house anyway (I'm guessing there's not much in the way of equity) so what would be the point?

 

[Bethy]

so I'd have to go to court to get a judgement?

sorry, I am so clueless to this stuff. Would that be when I file for divorce or could I file a civil case? Which state would I file in? His house is in NJ but we were in my house for 4 years and that's when I loaned him the money ("promised" to get it back within weeks....yea, right)

 

[Zigner]

You should include it as part of your divorce.

 

[nextwife]

What is the legal status of that property? Is it in foreclosure Have a mortgage? Is the mortgage in default?

 

[Bethy]

he owns home

he has his home in his name and I have mine in my name. It was threatened foreclosure a few times but his name is the only one on the deed. He does have a mortgage and it does have other liens on it.

I did find out my answer, but did want to respond.

thank you!