Community Property
Husband won’t put wife on home title. Is she at risk?
Question: My husband and his first wife bought their Tempe home 30 years ago. His first wife passed away five years ago. Six months later, my husband and I started dating and we were married three years later. Since our marriage, the monthly mortgage payments have come from our joint checking account. The paychecks of both…
Read MoreEviction Due To Mental Illness
Question: In a recent Q and A you discussed a troubled young man acting strange by moaning and dancing by himself at a swimming pool in a Tempe apartment complex. His parents immediately went over there and calmed the situation before the police arrived. The parents were afraid that their son would be evicted, and…
Read MoreProblems with Joint Tenants With Right of Survivorship
Question: We want to sell our Sunnyslope home and downsize to a townhouse in central Phoenix. In organizing our paperwork with our listing broker, we learned that our Sunnyslope deed said that we owned our home as “joint tenants with right of survivorship (JTWROS).” Our listing broker said that we should change this language in…
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