Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Virginia

Refinancing when separated

Bought house in VA - no longer with

partner. Both of us are on title.

Mortgage in is name. Heard he

refinanced. How can he do that if I

didn't sign anything? Aren't both

owner signatures required? What

can I do? Thanks


Asked on 5/04/09, 11:39 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: Refinancing when separated

If your partner has refinanced the jointly owned property and only in his name, this could be to your advantage, by keeping you off the mortgage note, but stll leaving you on the deed, which means that you're still an owner of an undivided half interest in the whole of this particular property.

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Answered on 5/05/09, 10:38 am


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