Real Estate and Divorce

How Do You Overcome The Challenges of Selling a Home During a Divorce? Mediate!

By Brenda Masse / September 18, 2023 /

Selling a home can be fraught with emotion under the best of circumstances, but add the dissolution of a marriage into the mix and you can really complicate the process. The role of “mediator” is one a Realtor can probably relate to, as it’s a hat they frequently find themselves wearing. Today we’re talking about…

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Ashley Madison Hack to Make our Market even Tighter!

By Jon Anderson / August 19, 2015 /

The illicit affair website Ashley Madison was hacked last month which exposed the personal information, credit cards and email addresses of many of its 39 million users. The hackers said they wouldn’t release the data if Ashley Madison shut down. It didn’t, so they did. Lawyers around the country are reporting an uptick in divorce-related…

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Living Together After Divorce: Edmonton Exes Build Custom Duplex Keeping Family Together, But Separate

By Joanna England / June 12, 2013 /

Of course, these living arrangements won’t work if you’ve got restraining orders, but for most divorcees with children, perhaps? I wonder if the former spouses could tolerate the high probability of running into your ex on an almost daily basis that living in a duplex with them would mean. This house designed by an Edmonton…

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Thank Goodness For Good Neighbors: Squatters Seized After Trying to Pilfer Posh Plano Pad

By Joanna England / June 7, 2013 /

Maybe we need to get over this whole “possession is 9/10ths of the law,” mentality, because some folks are taking it way too far.

In another case of a home on the market getting some unexpected tenants, Jack Brewer, 74, and his wife were arrested at the home of Jeff and Melissa Nunn after trying to assume ownership of the home, claiming it was abandoned and using a rule that hasn’t worked so well in the past.

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John Wiley Price + Bail Bonds Not Collected = $35 Million Owed to Dallas County: Why Dallas County Raised Our Taxes ?

By Candy Evans / July 6, 2011 /

So, come to find out, Dallas County has done a poor job of collecting millions of dollars in uncollected court case judgements over the oh, past 25 to 30 years or so. Which means we are owed about $35 million in court judgments against bail bondsmen and attorneys who write bonds but whose clients fail…

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