Some thoughts on Divorce and Real Estate. Divorce is a tough time – especially for children. On The State of Oregon’s – kid’s health website they have a few options for consideration to ease the situation when a pending home sale is in the future. They suggested telling the kids up front, eliminate surprises later. If your divorce is relatively civil (I’m actually still waiting to have a divorce sale like this) they said try and work out the answers to basic questions with your ex-spouse before telling the kids. For kids, their big concerns are about if they will have to change schools: and, will their beloved pet(s) get to be with them. For me a divorce sale is the call you never want to get but it is such a part of reality today. This type of transaction has additional challenges such as all parties agreeing on all the conditions and terms. Most people may find this next statement hard to believe but sometimes, in this situation, the parties involved don’t actually agree on anything. Sometimes they may have agreed at one point until they find out the other spouse agreed first, so they actually change their mind and now disagree. Shopping for homes for the recently divorced is a little easier than selling the family home. The husband usually looks for something he can afford typically that would be something in a manufactured home park while the wife almost always gets a brand new nicer home. I think this happens because the ex-husband really cares about his ex-wife and he wants her to have the best of everything after after they separate.
