Roscommon, MI Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

If you want to stay there, you have to determine if there is equity or if you owe, and then divide that up. If you have equity and want to sell, the final decree will award you the proper amount.

First, you had an obligation to the mortgage company to inform them of your mother's death if the mortgage was in her name. You should have started an administration of the estate if she died without a will. That being said, her grandsons have no right to anything if she didn't put it into a will as the intestate succession statute would give everything to her children in equal shares. If you paid on the mortgage during the marriage, your husband has an equitable interest in any part of the house that may come to you since all earnings are by definition, community property, unless you had a prenuptial agreement saying otherwise. He does not have a right to be compensated for any labor, but part of his equitable interest would be the cost of materials. You have made a huge mess of this by failing to administer the estate. If there are other children (your siblings) they have a potential case against you. You need to get legal counsel asap to clean up this mess before you get into even deeper trouble.

The term alimony is no longer used in family law cases. The new buzz word is spousal support and spousal support can be paid to either the wife or the husband based upon need, the inability to work, or possibly child care responsibility. Each case is decided on its facts and the advice you get from people on the street about legal matters is worth exactly what you pay for it which is usually nothing. You would need to discuss this with the lawyer you hire to represent you in the divorce case.