Okay here's the scenario. We are good friends. We have respect for each other and want to split everything outside of lawyers. And we want to be totally fair. We really do.
My wife got a gift of $10000 from her Dad before he died. We used that as a down payment on a house.
We split up last year and divided all of our bank accounts in half and agreed that would be fair.
Now she refinanced the house and the difference in the appraisal to the payout figure is $32000.
I want her to have her $10000 gift from her dad.
She says we should split $32000 in half, $16000 each, and then I pay her the $10000 from my share. Which makes a $26,000 to $6000 split.
I say the house should pay the $10000, then we split the remaining $22,000--$11,000 each. So the split would be $21,000-$11,000.
We both want to do what's fair but we both feel strongly for our own opinion and need outside help.
What is truly fair?
2006-12-28
09:22:07
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