If you live in a community property state, like Nevada, you spouse is entitled to half of everything up until the actual date of divorce. You say were waiting for final papers, but that you are selling 10 years later, which is confusing. It is irrelevant whether or not the spouse ever lived in the home, and it is irrelevant (in a community property state) whether or not the spouse made any payments as all income is community property during the marriage. If you got divorced 10 years ago, and purchased a property only days before the divorce was final, the property should have been dealt with in the divorce however, the divorce would have ended your spouse's interest in the property anyway leaving no claim to be asserted 10 years after the divorce.
Answered on Jun 28th, 2013 at 5:29 PM