Seminar: What Happens to the Marital Home During Divorce?

The Divorce Center Offers Seminar:
What Happens to the Marital Home During Divorce

The Divorce Center, a non-profit organization of professionals from multiple disciplines providing support and education for people going through separation or divorce, is offering a seminar entitled:

“What Happens to the Marital Home During Divorce” on June 7, 2012 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA

Carol Khouri, CFP, CDFA, a financial advisor with Wingate Wealth Advisors, will lead and moderate a panel of legal, mortgage and banking professionals who specialize in working with and representing divorcing couples and individuals. 

The panel of speakers includes:

• Matthew P. Trask, Esq., Kelsey & Trask P.C., Framingham, MA;
• David M. Gaffin, MBA, senior loan officer, Greenpark Mortgage, A Division of Berkshire Bank, Needham, MA; and
• Barbie Jetter, MS, CPC, CDPP, regional lending manager, Bank of Canton, Canton, MA. 

The panel will discuss the various housing options that are available to divorcing couples during and after the divorce. Topics will include:

• Selling the marital home and splitting the proceeds;
• One spouse staying in the home until children graduate high school or college;
• One spouse buying out the other’s interest;
• What happens when there is no equity and the couple needs to do a short sale; and
• Ramifications of doing a short sale. 

This seminar is offered free of charge, however a donation of $20 is suggested.

For more information or to register, visit http://thedivorcecenter.org.