Do you sell a house before or after filing a divorce? Should you sign the house over to your ex-spouse in a divorce?

Grab a copy of my book, Savvy Seller Top Dollar where I address the special circumstances of selling a house during divorce.

Divorce shakes you to the core. It affects your family. Your home. Your truth.

For some, there is a depth of tragedy that will weave through their life. For others, there is a release that comes with the taste of freedom and relief. But either way, we are shaken.

Wherever you find yourself as your marriage comes to an end, a divorce is always a loss. A loss of something beautiful and desired. Something significant. Committed. And foundational.

Even if these things were lost many years ago, or if they were only ever a fantasy that hid the reality, they are lost.

And with that loss comes the understanding that marriage is, at its core, a business partnership.

And when the relationship ends, the dissolution of the business partnership begins.

Paperwork. Appointments with attorneys. Contracts. Court dates. All of these are the trapping of business. They are the unfortunately ignored implications of marriage. The business of marriage is hidden under veils, vows, and honeymoons. But where weddings look away from the trappings of business, divorce demands them.

And the whole process will be affected by the work of the heart. The healing. The grief. The animosity. And hopefully, at the center of it all, the rising above and moving beyond.

In this chapter, we’ll address the process of selling a home within the process of getting a divorce. We will take the home selling information from the first section of this book and add in the complexities of divorce.

In both real estate and divorce, the stakes are really high. And unfortunately, when we combine the two into a divorce real estate sale, the challenges are more so. As a matter of fact, home sales due to divorce are a notorious cause of expired listings or listings that don’t sell during the listing period. It makes perfect sense when you think about all the angry people, the financial mishaps, the hidden truth, the poor communication, and the broken boundaries that lead to divorce.

Real estate is typically the largest asset of the marriage as well as the largest debt. And divorce is one of the greatest heartbreaks most people will experience. So when we add all this together, it is no wonder that tensions run so high during a divorce.

In my section on selling your house during divorce we address the business of divorce and also the heart of divorce. We have the best outcome when we work with both.