Would you divorce your spouse to save the house?

[Deleted]

In order to save your house from foreclosure and to avoid paying a large tax to the IRS that is also a business debt, would you divorce your spouse? Also, you could not remarry for a minimum of five years.

This is something Jay's friend did. I feel like there might be more behind the divorce than just this. But maybe I'm just thinking different.

[Deleted]

I would lose the house before I lost my husband. But that's just me.

[alabasterangel]

If he could still live there.. maybe.

I don't think you need to married to be together forever.

But I'm not a fan of trying to cheat the system either - if you owe money.. you owe money.

[monkeygirl18]

Yes, I would. It's my family home and I'm the third generation to own it.
Besides, I could wait it out the 5 yrs and then just remarry Ker and get to do the whole wedding,reception and honeymoon all over again

[Deleted]

H and I jokingly discussed getting divorced (but continueing to live together) in order to pay less taxes. But in all seriousness, no I wouldn't.

[eureka1017]

no. I would lose my house before I lost my husband. I too, wonder if there was more behind the divorce than losing the house.

[moonlight]

May 27, 2012 16:50:09 GMT -5 skippingstones said:

I would lose the house before I lost my husband. But that's just me.

Me too. I think this is the "for worse" part they are talking about in the marriage vows.

[blondemoment123]

Honestly, I might. In my line of work, I see people struggling to keep their houses everyday. It puts such a strain on their families. I don't own my house, but if I did I would fight to keep it.

[ILikeSloths]

May 27, 2012 16:50:09 GMT -5 skippingstones said:

I would lose the house before I lost my husband. But that's just me.

Exactly this.

I would never consider divorcing him over something like this.

[darkling_glory]

I probably would. It's just a piece of paper, after all. I'm assuming it wouldn't be a real divorce.

The only thing I would worry about would be getting "caught" in a fake divorce. Would there be legal trouble for that?

[pilife]

I would have to look into which "hurt" less. nothing would change if we got divorced other than paperwork, but I'm thinking if we couldn't afford the house together, we won't be able to afford it "separated" either.

[lizo11]

May 28, 2012 17:43:32 GMT -5 ILikeSloths said:

May 27, 2012 16:50:09 GMT -5 skippingstones said:

I would lose the house before I lost my husband. But that's just me.

Exactly this.

I would never consider divorcing him over something like this.

This is my thought as well. I would also have a problem with cheating the system, because even if no direct reprecussions came of it, I beleive karma would kick ass eventually.

[conradtn]

House isn't worth it.

[sapphire bou]

I think there's more to the divorce in this case.

Personally, I would not divorce my husband to save the house. I married him for him, not for property.

[Deleted]

We own our house free and clear and if we ever lost it for whatever reason, MIL has other rental properties she would give us.