As long as there is no mortgage, either or you can take your name off the deed by having a new deed prepared which both of you sign as grantors, to the one of you that wants to keep the house, as grantee. It takes both of you to transfer ownership as both of you own it. The one of you who gets the house, takes it subject to the back taxes.
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