This Old House: Protecting Your Client's Interest in What Can Be the Most Valuable and Least Understood Asset in Divorce

This panel of national experts will alert matrimonial practitioners to the major potential real estate pitfalls that are preventable during the divorce, but not after.

Who will keep the house? How much is it worth? Should the parties agree to a value? Should the parties use a joint appraiser? Does your expert’s appraisal make any sense? Will it stand up to scrutiny? How do you cross-examine a real estate appraiser? Will your client be able to qualify for a mortgage? What do you do if your client’s house is “underwater”? What is a short-sale and how can you help your client negotiate with the bank? Will your client be able to remove her name from the mortgage and is a “hold harmless” agreement really sufficient?

In the wake of the financial/mortgage crisis and the housing meltdown, now more than ever matrimonial practitioners must be able to answer these and other crucial questions. This panel of national experts will alert matrimonial practitioners to the major potential real estate pitfalls that are preventable during the divorce, but not after.

Program Faculty
Robert Maddox (Moderator), Partner, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Birmingham, AL

Kelly Lise Murray, Director, Professional Education and the Vanderbilt Collaboration Project, Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, TN

Sponsors
Section of Family Law

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ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education