Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Virginia

taking deceased person's name off title to home

Do I need to take dead husband's name off title to

our home? I refinanced it

a few years after his death,

my name only.


Asked on 5/18/07, 1:32 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: taking deceased person's name off title to home

You, Ma'am, as a practical matter, are now the only owner of record, and, therefore, I would think not. (If the mortgage lender had thought differently, you likely would not have been able to do the refinance in your name only.)

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Answered on 5/18/07, 6:10 am


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