Hi,
I'm back unfortunately.
When we bought our house 11 years ago, which is for sale right now to divide the property, my family gave me $150k as a gift and her family gave us nothing. Without that money, we could not have bought this house. The money went directly from my family to the lawyers for the down payment.
Now in her claim, she wants half of the assets of the house and half of the 150K. I understood this to be my money (the gift) and she has no claim to it since we were common law. My lawyer said we should place it as a debt on my answer to her claim and said that he doubts a judge will buy the story but we will try.
Any views on how the law should treat this or if I should change it to a gift which is what it was. Obviously, it was not gifted to her. The case conference is coming up soon and as it stands, she will not get custody of the kids. I ma living in the house and she has moved out since Oct,2010.
I'm back unfortunately.
When we bought our house 11 years ago, which is for sale right now to divide the property, my family gave me $150k as a gift and her family gave us nothing. Without that money, we could not have bought this house. The money went directly from my family to the lawyers for the down payment.
Now in her claim, she wants half of the assets of the house and half of the 150K. I understood this to be my money (the gift) and she has no claim to it since we were common law. My lawyer said we should place it as a debt on my answer to her claim and said that he doubts a judge will buy the story but we will try.
Any views on how the law should treat this or if I should change it to a gift which is what it was. Obviously, it was not gifted to her. The case conference is coming up soon and as it stands, she will not get custody of the kids. I ma living in the house and she has moved out since Oct,2010.
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