Divorce & Life Changes
Ohio law names an inheritance received during the marriage as separate property, and a divorce court shall give separate property back to its owner. Two things can move that line — and whose name is on the deed is not one of them.
Divorce & Life Changes
Ohio gives a surviving spouse a year in the house free of charge, a forty thousand dollar allowance, and a right to buy the house at appraised value. One of those rights expires quickly.
Divorce & Life Changes
If the deed says survivorship, the house did not go into your spouse’s estate — it became yours when they died. Here is the short filing that proves it, and the three things that still catch people out.
Divorce & Life Changes
When an owner can no longer sign and nobody holds a power of attorney, the house does not simply pass to the family. Ohio routes the sale through probate court — and sets a price floor most articles never mention.
Divorce & Life Changes
Selling sits inside ordinary general authority. Transferring the house to yourself does not — and Ohio blocks that outright for most agents.
Divorce & Life Changes
Ohio measures the marriage to the final hearing, not to the day someone moved out — and once the decree divides the house, changing it takes both signatures.
Divorce & Life Changes
Putting the house in joint names may not do what your family thinks. Ohio defines "estate" broadly enough to reach it — here is what the statute actually says.
Divorce & Life Changes
Whose signature the sale needs, whether Ohio really splits everything down the middle, and why the spouse who is not on the deed still has to sign.
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