Quitclaim Deed not legal after a divorce

[kbjb]

What is the name of your state? Missouri

Recently discovered that 20 years ago in my divorce there was a quitclaim deed that my ex-inlaws are stating is not legal. They want me to resign a quitclaim deed and return to them through a Title Company. Is this legal? Within the divorce decree it was noted that my x was to pay me child support which the girls were 8 and 10 at the time. Only received a total of $1,000 during their growing up. Now his parents want me to redo this quitclaim deed. If their son still owes like $40,000 in child support, should I really have another quitclaim deed signed and forwarded to his parents? Help!

 

[danno6925]

Why the hell are your ex-inlaws even involved in the first place?

Sounds to me as though they're trying to sell the house. Fortunately, when one conducts a real estate settlement, domestic liens searches conducted to determine if child support liens exist.

That being said, please tell me you filed liens against the deadbeat dad in the local courthouse when he didn't pay up - please please please tell me you did. If you didn't you might never see that money. However, if you DID, then they will have to be taken care of before he can close on the sale of the house - meaning, he'll have to cough up that 40 large from the proceeds of the sale.

If that's the case, I would contact the title company immediately to make them aware of the child support liens - just in case they "missed" them. You would then probably get paid the 40k at settlement, and you would want to do anything that will expedite things, wouldn't you?

If there are no liens, and you're not getting paid - drag those feet of yours as long as possible. Be a general pain in the ass to the ex-inlaws if they're not willing to shell out what the ex-hubby owes in child support. If the deed wasn't legal the county would probably have rejected it before recording it, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. Just out of curiosity, what about the quitclaim are they saying wasn't legal?