Property Transfer After Divorce: Why a Lawyer Makes Everything Less Messy
[ There’s something about the word “divorce” that makes people tense their shoulders. Even if it’s amicable. Even if everyone’s being reasonable. Still—ugh. We’ve all seen a friend or relative get sucked into post-divorce paperwork chaos and thought, “Nope, not for me.” But one thing that really sneaks up on people? Property transfers. Who keeps the house. Who gets the condo. Who ends up with the cabin that everyone pretends they love but secretly hates because the AC never works and the spiders are… large. You’d think transferring property after a divorce would be simple, right? Like, sign a thing, hand over a key, boom. Done. Yeah. No. Turns out, real estate doesn’t care about your emotional bandwidth. It has rules. Steps. Weird little legal quirks. And if you’re not careful, you can create a mess you’re stuck cleaning up long after the divorce papers are framed, burned, or stuffed in a filing cabinet. This is where having a lawyer for deed transfer comes in like, “Hey. ...