Anyone have experience divorcing but physically partitioning the house into two, until the kids move out?
I have heard such a case mentioned tangentially and vaguely positively in an article or book I read, but have lost track of it.
The house we have happens to be laid out so that with modest amount of construction, I could have separate living quarters encompassing the current master bath, upstairs laundry, the large walk-in master-suite closet, and my office. Square footage would be adequate for me, and a small kitchen could be squeezed in. I could have my own entrance from inside the attached garage (below), and perhaps a lockable and fairly isolated door for the kids to pass back and forth through upstairs.
The point would be to disrupt the kids' lives as little as possible, but still make a fairly clean end to my marriage. I could imagine my wife agreeing to it, because (1) I think it will be difficult, perhaps impossible, for her to afford to take ownership of the house post-divorce, and (2) through the years she has been adamant about staying on night shift and will be faced with either switching to the ("unbearably" stressful) day shift or not having the kids the nights she works (which will need to increase from three to five days or nights per week, regardless).
The plan would be to reach legally binding settlement during the divorce (removing one name from the deed, signing a lease or whatever for the other, integrating all this fairly in the overall divorce settlement). After our youngest graduates from high school, the lease would expire, and the one not on the deed would move out.
Maybe it's a pipe dream. But, it would be helpful to know if anyone has tried it, or has observed such being tried, and how it went.
Thanks.
I have heard such a case mentioned tangentially and vaguely positively in an article or book I read, but have lost track of it.
The house we have happens to be laid out so that with modest amount of construction, I could have separate living quarters encompassing the current master bath, upstairs laundry, the large walk-in master-suite closet, and my office. Square footage would be adequate for me, and a small kitchen could be squeezed in. I could have my own entrance from inside the attached garage (below), and perhaps a lockable and fairly isolated door for the kids to pass back and forth through upstairs.
The point would be to disrupt the kids' lives as little as possible, but still make a fairly clean end to my marriage. I could imagine my wife agreeing to it, because (1) I think it will be difficult, perhaps impossible, for her to afford to take ownership of the house post-divorce, and (2) through the years she has been adamant about staying on night shift and will be faced with either switching to the ("unbearably" stressful) day shift or not having the kids the nights she works (which will need to increase from three to five days or nights per week, regardless).
The plan would be to reach legally binding settlement during the divorce (removing one name from the deed, signing a lease or whatever for the other, integrating all this fairly in the overall divorce settlement). After our youngest graduates from high school, the lease would expire, and the one not on the deed would move out.
Maybe it's a pipe dream. But, it would be helpful to know if anyone has tried it, or has observed such being tried, and how it went.
Thanks.
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