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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP still hasn't answered by how much her husband out earned her.  I'm thinking she didn't pay much, if anything, toward the mortgage on this property.  If I were her Ex, I'd fight to the death.[/quote]

I worked part time and stayed home with the children part time. STBX earned several times my income. I don't know how relevant that is, though?

I didn't directly pay the mortgage company anything (I did pay them indirectly, in the form of rent checks I paid to STBX before we were married). As I mentioned earlier, I also paid a significant amount toward house renovations and put in by far the majority of time and labor on that effort, but that was also before we were married, which I understand may mean that I'm SOL on those contributions.

As for what happened while we were married, my understanding from my lawyer is that it doesn't matter whether or not I actually wrote checks to the mortgage company then, because the income used to pay the mortgage (regardless who writes the check) is considered joint marital income if it's done during a marriage.

Thank you for all the input and ideas so far. I'll look up amortization tables and plug in some numbers and see what comes out, and how much variability there is when I change the inputs, since I'll be guessing on those. [/quote]

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