[rolling_stone]

My sister married a Iranian man. They separated. A little later, she discovered he went out and bought a house. The courts backed him up and said she had no claim to that house. They were still married at the time. He left her penniless and homeless.



So he got the house and the green card! Isn't America wonderful...after seperation if he used seperate funds, why would she have a claim to it?

[television is just wrong]

"So he got the house and the green card! Isn't America wonderful...after seperation if he used seperate funds, why would she have a claim to it?"

It was with joint funds, and the courts didn't care they turn a blind eye in these cases.

His parents got their green cards and citizenship too. Oh, and Social Security payments with their Iranian work record.

Isn't America generous with their soon to be defunct Social Security system?

[Rebelbase]

"My sister married a Iranian man. They separated. A little later, she discovered he went out and bought a house"


Separation agreements usually contain a "free trader" clause, where either party can purchase real estate or consumer goods independent of claim from the other party in the final settlement.

A cash down payment using marital assets to get a loan to buy the property was probably only 5%, which the wife would only be entitled to 1/2 of that. If the down payment could be proved to be acquired by savings after the separation, then the wife has no claim, IMO.