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The Global Insight

Can my daughter sell my house?

Author

Sarah Garza

Updated on March 13, 2026

Selling or giving your home to someone else for less than market value. You are free to give any of your assets away, including your home.

Can my wife sell our house to me?

Yes, if you are worried that your partner may sell or give away property or get a new loan without telling you, the Court can make an urgent order (injunction) to stop this happening until a final decision is made about your property. This includes property which is owned in the sole name of your partner.

What happens if your spouse refuses to sell your house?

What if your spouse refuses to sell? It may be the case that you need to sell the home in a divorce, but your spouse won’t cooperate. If your spouse can’t afford to buy you out, then you’ll need to work with your divorce attorney to file a motion with a family law judge and compel the sale.

What happens if step mother wants to sell house?

If it is the case that your father and step-mother owned the property as tenants in common and your step-mother decides to sell the house, you would be entitled to a 50 per-cent share of the sale proceeds if in his Will your father left his half share interest in the property to you.

What to do if one spouse wants to sell the House?

I want to sell [the house] so I can move, but he doesn’t. He doesn’t have enough money to buy me out or the credit to refinance it on his own. What do I do? ~ Brenda Brenda, we are sorry that you have found yourself in this position. It is not uncommon in a divorce for one spouse to want to keep the house.

What happens when you sell your house to your child?

The cost of the house when your child sells it later on will be the lower price you paid for it (your basis “ carried over” to your child). From the example in Option 1, this means your child’s profit when they sell will be $350,000, not $50,000. And then it’s a numbers game from here.

When did it become legal to sell your wife?

Writing in 1901 on the subject of wife selling, James Bryce stated that there was “no trace at all in our [English] law of any such right”, but he also observed that “everybody has heard of the odd habit of selling a wife, which still occasionally recurs among the humbler classes in England”.