I assume that the person you own the property with is not your spouse. Most likely you own the property with this person as either a tenant in common or as a joint owner. Either way your 1/2 ownership interest in the property is a part of your bankruptcy estate. The bankruptcy trustee will want to liquidate your portion of the property if it has enough value for distribution to creditors. It does not matter how much debt you have. The bankruptcy trustee is required to liquidate your property and distribute whatever is recovered to creditors. The trustee will probably negotiate a purchase with your joint owner for your 1/2 interest. If that cannot be done the trustee will make a decision on whether there is enough value in your 1/2 interest to sell or file a partition action on. If it does not have enough value to matter to the trustee, he will probably abandon the property when he closes your case and ownership will then be yours again.
Answered on Jul 10th, 2012 at 3:20 PM