Selling a Home During a Divorce in Georgetown, SC

Selling a house during a divorce in Georgetown goes best when the process is plain and both owners can see it. Local to Coastal Realty sends pricing, offers, showing feedback, and the timeline to both of you at once, or to your attorneys if you prefer, with the same comps behind every number. I handle the sale and leave the settlement to you and your attorneys. If both names are on the title, both sign the deed.

South Carolina tries a divorce in the county where the defendant lives, or where the two of you last lived together, so when you both still live in Georgetown County, the case is filed there. The county lists its Family Court at 401 Cleland Street, first floor, Room 115, open 8:30 to 5 on weekdays, with mail going to P.O. Box 479. Your attorneys handle the filings; what matters for the sale is that any order coming out of that office gets followed to the letter.

Before we price, I look up the deed so we both know whose names are on it. Georgetown County's Register of Deeds keeps property transfers and mortgages going back to the late 1860s, finds them by the approximate date of sale and the names of the seller and buyer, and runs an online record system at georgetowndeeds.com, where you can view and print your deed if the image is available. A copy from the office runs 50 cents a page. When the house sells, the deed to your buyer is recorded in that same office.

South Carolina's disclosure law does not apply to a transfer between spouses resulting from a divorce decree or marital property distribution order. A regular sale to an outside buyer generally needs the disclosure statement before the contract is signed, unless another listed exemption applies. The seller pays the deed recording fee of $1.85 per $500 of value. The IRS lets you exclude up to $250,000 of gain on a main home, or $500,000 on a joint return, when the ownership and use tests are met, and it counts a former spouse's use under a divorce or separation instrument toward that test. Read selling your home in Georgetown, see what your Georgetown home is worth, and call me when you are ready.