A real conundrum.
I have been married to my husband for seven years and we have one child together. I also have eight children from a previous marriage, and he has one child from a previous marriage. His dad died several years ago and his mom’s health currently not doing too well. I have a question about inheritance. My mother-in-law does not like me, so I can’t talk to her about this.
You may not like your mother-in-law, but you appear to have higher regard for her home. If you are planning to divorce your husband, you can kiss goodbye to him and your mother-in-law’s home. Maryland is an equitable-distribution state and not a community-property state. A divorce court is under no obligation to divide property 50/50.
However, there is another wrinkle to your husband’s expected inheritance. Even in a community-property state, gifts and inheritance are not regarded as marital property and, therefore, not divided equally in a divorce. The same applies to Maryland’s equitable-distribution laws: Your husband would keep his mother’s home, assuming he pre-deceases you. On the upside, your only child would likely inherit your mother-in-law’s home after her father dies.
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