Lehigh Acres, FL Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

You should certainly question your attorney. This could be someone they were consulting with and that may have been allowed in the original retainer agreement.

I cannot give you a definite answer. What I can say is that there are actually a number of different factors Michigan courts consider. Of those the length of the marriage and the disparity in incomes tend to matter most. So the shorter the marriage the less likely one will receive alimony. You have a very short marriage; your question does not say anything about the disparity of incomes. Having said that, alimony may be a potential remedy to address marital debt; unpaid rent is a marital debt (like credit cards or car payments). Part of the divorce process is determining who pays which debts. If you are forced to pay his share of a marital debt one way to be made whole is to receive temporary alimony until that debt has been paid back to you. Your situation sounds like one where, based on the length of marriage itself, you may not have a claim for alimony but you could ask for it as a way to handle the debt issue.

Your boyfriend can re-mortgage the home into his name alone. To have the deed changed he will have to get his ex to sign a Quit Claim deed over to him. If he truly does not know where his ex is living, he can ask the court to quiet title in his name and put a legal advertisement in the paper to that effect, giving her an opportunity to respond. If she doesn't respond within a specified amount of time, then the court will remove her name from the title or cause the register of deed to issue a new title in his name only.