Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. Kimberly writes, my fiance

and I purchased a house together in 2022. We were both in our 50s and had been homeowners in the past.

Our deed has the phrase right of survivorship in it, where if one of us dies, the property automatically goes to the other.

Well, my fiancee passed away late last year, and while researching about selling the house,

I found out he had filed a quit claim back in October right before he had surgery to remove a tumor.

The quit claim deeds his half of the house to his sons who are 23 and 26.

Neither one of them has any interest in living in the house or paying for it.

Does the quit claim supersede our deed wording about the right of survivorship?

If so, how do I go about selling my house?

If they have legally inherited it, should they be paying half the mortgage HOA and taxes?

Good God.

What a mess.

This is why you do not buy a home with someone you're not married to, even if they're your fiancé.

Ever. Ever.

Ever.

This is why.

I've seen this kind of wicked, weird stuff for 30 years when people buy a house that

aren't married.

Well, we love each other.

Good.

Get married.

Then buy a house.

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