Working With Your Realtor, Attorney and Mediator When Selling in a Divorce

Tanja Odzak is a Realtor with eXp Realty. She is not an attorney, a mediator, or an accountant, and it is important to know where her help ends.

What a Realtor can help with: what your home is likely to sell for, what to do before listing, how the process and timeline work, what offers mean, and what the contract dates are.

How the proceeds are divided, what a sale means for support, what it means for taxes, or any question about your legal rights. Those belong with your own attorney and tax professional.

On the calendar. Your attorney or mediator may have dates they need to meet, and I can tell you how a sale could fit around them. If they have questions about the selling process, I am glad to answer them directly, with your permission.

Bring a short list of questions before the home is listed. For example:

• How should the sale be handled, and who has to agree to it?
• Who signs, and does anything need approval before the home is listed or an offer is accepted?
• Where does the money go at closing?

Those answers are theirs to give. The more your Realtor and your attorney coordinate, the fewer surprises there are for you.

Read my page on selling a home during a divorce, then book a free 30-minute call whenever you want to talk about your own home. This is general information about the selling process, not legal, tax, or lending advice. Tanja is a Realtor, not an attorney, mediator, or accountant.