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[quote=Anonymous]Not sure why your lawyers isn't guiding you through this. You should get half of the increase in value+half of the increase in equity during your marriage as your portion of the house.

There is no way to do what you want without some real research, and I'm not quite sure why you wouldn't want to invest a little bit of effort and money into it if the martial home is a substantial investment.

You need to get a hold of a recent mortgage statement, so you know exactly what the equity is and what amount remains to be paid.  You also need to know what the equity was when you both married.  You will need to figure out the value when you bought it and its value now - get an appraisal done for the value now.

Your STBX may not want to give you these documents, but it is in his/her interest to do so.  If you can't work this out and get the courts involved, then your STBX will have to provide these documents in discovery if you litigate.  Very expensive and will probably cost more than whatever money s/he is saving by not handing over the documents.  Although I guess that depends on what s/he is hiding by not turning over the documents...

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