Free calculator · Utah

Can I keep the house?

Keeping the home means two things at once: refinancing the mortgage into your name, and paying your spouse their share of the equity. They are usually the same loan — which is why the number you have to qualify for is bigger than what you owe today.

Step 1 — What you owe your spouse
Keeping the house means buying out their share of the equity. That amount usually gets rolled into the refinance, so it changes the loan you apply for.
Equity in the home$268,000
Buyout owed to your spouse$134,000
Loan you'd apply for$516,000
Most a cash-out refinance lends (80% of value)$520,000
Step 2 — Can you carry $516,000?
On your income alone, after the divorce. Support you pay counts against you; support you receive can often count as income — ask the lender about yours.
New mortgage payment$3,228/mo
Total housing cost$3,578/mo
All monthly obligations$3,978/mo
Debt-to-income66%
Result
Probably Not Eligible
This one's tight — a lender can show you options.

What happens to the house in a Utah divorce?

There are only three real outcomes, and the right one usually comes down to whether the equity can be moved without selling.

One of you buys the other out

The spouse keeping the home refinances the mortgage into their own name and pays the other their share of the equity — normally as one loan, the existing balance plus the buyout. This is the path the calculator above is for.

You sell and split the proceeds

The simplest outcome and the one that ends the entanglement cleanly. It is also the default when the equity is real on paper but cannot be borrowed against: a cash-out refinance is generally capped at 80% of the home's value, and that ceiling stops more buyouts than income does.

You keep owning it together for a while

Sometimes chosen to keep children in a school or to wait out a rate. It works only with genuine cooperation, and it leaves both names on the loan — so it is a delay of the decision rather than the decision.

Does the divorce decree take my spouse off the mortgage?

No. A decree divides ownership between the two of you, but your lender is not a party to it and is not bound by it. Only a refinance or a loan assumption removes someone from the note. Coming off the title and coming off the loan are different things, and people discover the difference years later when the mortgage still shows on their credit.

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A decree does not take anyone off the mortgage

Your lender is not a party to your divorce. The decree can say who keeps the house, and both names stay on the loan until somebody refinances or the lender agrees to an assumption. Off title is not off the note — and the order those two happen in matters. divvi writes the decree language that keeps the refinance possible later.

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