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What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? Pennsylvania
My wife and I separated in February and I continued to contribute to the house and other bills while we were separated. I am now going to get an apartment and we are in the process of separating the finances. We started in May, and decided everything together very amicably. We have a 6 year old, and we agreed on support and everything. She took everything to her lawyer and he put together a Separation Agreement draft for us to go over and sign and return to him. This entire process is costing $2000, which seems very steep to me, but she agreed to pay $1500 because it is her lawyer.
Anyway, we have waited 2 months and even she is sick of waiting. As of receiving the draft, we owed $875 and we are going to pay that and use the draft as our agreement. IN the agreement, she receives full ownership of our house via a quit claim deed. On the deed and the mortgage is my wife and my mother (I have some credit issues).
I have a couple questions here. First, since I am very weary of lawyers right now, given our current experience, what should we do with this separation agreement? Do we need to file it with the court, or can it be signed and used in divorce proceedings, if things get that far. Second, if I decide to buy one of those online quit claim deed forms, where do I file that? With the court? Would my mom and my wife have to be present at a notary to get the thing official? And how does that affect the mortgage? Does my wife need to refinance the mortgage only in her name, or if she doesn't "need to" is it something i should push for.
I apologize for all the confusion, but this lawyer really screwed me I think, and now the guy is in Italy for a month. He'll be lucky if he even gets the $875 without a fight.
Thanks in advance.
My wife and I separated in February and I continued to contribute to the house and other bills while we were separated. I am now going to get an apartment and we are in the process of separating the finances. We started in May, and decided everything together very amicably. We have a 6 year old, and we agreed on support and everything. She took everything to her lawyer and he put together a Separation Agreement draft for us to go over and sign and return to him. This entire process is costing $2000, which seems very steep to me, but she agreed to pay $1500 because it is her lawyer.
Anyway, we have waited 2 months and even she is sick of waiting. As of receiving the draft, we owed $875 and we are going to pay that and use the draft as our agreement. IN the agreement, she receives full ownership of our house via a quit claim deed. On the deed and the mortgage is my wife and my mother (I have some credit issues).
I have a couple questions here. First, since I am very weary of lawyers right now, given our current experience, what should we do with this separation agreement? Do we need to file it with the court, or can it be signed and used in divorce proceedings, if things get that far. Second, if I decide to buy one of those online quit claim deed forms, where do I file that? With the court? Would my mom and my wife have to be present at a notary to get the thing official? And how does that affect the mortgage? Does my wife need to refinance the mortgage only in her name, or if she doesn't "need to" is it something i should push for.
I apologize for all the confusion, but this lawyer really screwed me I think, and now the guy is in Italy for a month. He'll be lucky if he even gets the $875 without a fight.
Thanks in advance.