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SoCalDem

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13. The home may not have been in her name
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:31 PM
Dec 2012

A settlement could have been very easily structured so that she lived there free of charge since the son was with her..

I never suggested that he was happy to be free of alimony...just that he bought his way out with the large alimony and perhaps the house as well..

Rich men buy their way out of marriages all the time.

She could have had very few :assets: of her own..

I personally know people who have held onto a house, post divorce for this very reason.. He got the deduction for interest paid and retained ownership, and the wife continued to live there with the kids.

Perhaps you have read the divorce settlement.. I was only opining what "could" have been a settlement that would have given her a place to live, money to live on, and yet not retain much as "assets"

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