My separation agreement is signed! It only took a year and a half, for a very cooperative separation. Bleh. But now I can move forward on some long outstanding issues.
I get the matrimonial home (and the mortgage) but my lawyer is telling me that now we each need a real estate lawyer to do the job of changing the title from both our names to just mine, at who knows what cost. It seems like such a simple matter, but when I phoned the land registry office to see if I could just bring in the agreement and get them to do it for whatever fee, they said that new deeds were done electronically and that lawyers had the software necessary. Say what?? Is there no way to do this ourselves?
And what's the generally accepted order of things? Do I get my ex off the title first, or the mortgage? The bank says they only need to see the agreement and then they can do a 'release,' which sounds a lot easier than all this title/deed stuff, but I'm not sure I should do it first.
I get the matrimonial home (and the mortgage) but my lawyer is telling me that now we each need a real estate lawyer to do the job of changing the title from both our names to just mine, at who knows what cost. It seems like such a simple matter, but when I phoned the land registry office to see if I could just bring in the agreement and get them to do it for whatever fee, they said that new deeds were done electronically and that lawyers had the software necessary. Say what?? Is there no way to do this ourselves?
And what's the generally accepted order of things? Do I get my ex off the title first, or the mortgage? The bank says they only need to see the agreement and then they can do a 'release,' which sounds a lot easier than all this title/deed stuff, but I'm not sure I should do it first.
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