Divorce

[daveydave]

Divorce is final at last but not sure now how to continue, House was purchased en-tontine and I now have to have the ownership transferred to me only, I need an estimate for this to take place to put to English court but Notaire wants information before doing this to assign half value to wife, her half has already been accounted for on settlement, what is the normal action

Dave

[tinabee]

I don't know what would be a normal action, but I could envisage a couple of options.

1. ask another notaire to give you a costing for cancelling a tontine (i.e. a transfer into sole ownership)

2. Obtain a legal translation of the UK settlement to explain to your current notaire that the asset value has already been accounted for

[daveydave]

Thanks tinabee, Looks like thats my only option, just hoped to find someone whose gone through it to get an idea of cost, they say it is the new hobby of the over 50's to get divorced, prob was when I started but has gone on for 21/2 years now and lots of money, fishing may have been a better.

[idun]

I don't know of anyone who has divorced with a second home in France, but when my french neighbours divorced, he kept the property and bought his ex wife out, which you have already done.

According to him, he had to pay all the taxes etc and notaires fees, just as if he was buying the house in his own name, which in fact was what he was doing. So you may end up with a lot more to pay out, these things are not 'shared' in France,the purchaser pays.

Go and see at least one other notaire about this, the more information you have the better.

[daveydave]

Im trying to find a rough price as I can split the cost with her, if it is hundreds I will cover it but if it comes out to thousands then Im best to pay only half, looks like i will have to pop over with the translation to see the notaire and see the what is the the French norm.

Dave

[tinabee]

this article may shed some light on the subject

http://www.droitissimo.com/famille/divorce/consequences-divorce-entre-epoux/combien-coute-partage-communaute-apres-divorce

[daveydave]

Cheers Tinabee

It looks like it could cost thousands rather the hundreds, as the court has ordered shared costs, had it been the latter i would not have bothered as the time taken to sort out would come to more than the cost to go over and waste my time, this makes it more reasonable to attend and get some money back, also a good excuse to eat, fish and drink. do everything French.