Divorced dad pays off family home in place of child support and leaves his 21-year-old kid half of the house, her mother demands she surrender her half so she has full ownership: ‘I would be kicked out immediately’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Aug 10, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Divorce, though difficult to witness as a child who thought Mom and Dad would be together forever, is sometimes necessary to make a family work. Some parents weren't meant to be romantically involved, but now that a child is in the mix, they must do what's necessary to foster a healthy co-parenting relationship. This, unfortunately, oftentimes results in a (hopefully) amicable divorce.

When your parents take the steps to create a healthy living situation for you, that's how you know that at least one of them is acting in your best interest. It's not until later in your life that you realize one of them was acting selfishly for themselves—the 21-year-old in this next story learns this the hard way. Scroll below to read about how they deal with their mother trying to steal their half of the house from right under their nose.

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  • "I either need to keep it or buy her half but she won't sell me her half."
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  • "My mom hates me because I won’t sign over my half of the house."

    I (21F) and my mom (50F) just got my childhood home signed over to both of us. 50/50. For a little back story, my parents got
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  • divorced when I was 8. In court the judge told my mother she had 60 days to get out of my dad's house. My mom turned around
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  • after court and told my dad she would move me into a trailer park and raise me like white trash and that's what his daughter would
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  • turn out to be, so me dad let her stay in the house. They had an agreement notarized stating that he would pay for the house in lieu
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  • of child support. The notarized paper said that he would sign the house over to her when it was paid off. He did that he paid it off
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  • two months ago and put it in both mine and my mom's name. My dad knows how my mom is and knows that I would be kicked out
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  • immediately. If he didn't put me on the house somewhere the paper never stated that it holy had to go to her. last night we got
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  • the deed with both of our names on it and she lost it and told me I needed to sign my half over to her The house on market books
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  • for 200,000. I told her I would take 75K from my half. Now the family is torn. Some people are telling me that I just need to sign
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  • it over and the other is telling me I either need to keep it or buy her half but she won't sell me her half. I don't know what I'm
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  • looking for if it's legal advice or just to vent but I'm not sure who's in the right here.
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  • mother and daughter sitting on couch after argument over the home
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  • At the end of the day, the kid's mother cannot force her to hand over her share of the home. The realization that the person who should value her security is actively trying to take it away, though, is difficult to deal with. Imagine being in the 21-year-old's shoes. How do you come to terms with a parent valuing money or family? What do you think about this situation?

  • FatterThanlThinklAm Don't sign it over to her! If she wants the money out of it, you and she can sell the house and split the money, but you don't owe her your half EVER. Your mom is a piece of work.
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  • Strong Passion_1482 She WANTS the house so she won't sell it, she said she's going to try to sue me for it. I've been talking with my dad and he's getting me a legal team ready. To my understanding there's nothing she can do about this.
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  • JustAslCanBeSoCruel Let her sue. She has demonstrated she is willing to torpedo her relationship with you over a house, and she is going to waste a significant amount of money doing it.
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  • If I were you, I would move in with your Dad if at all possible, and tell anyone that says you should signs the house over to her that you will be going no contact with them if they bring up the subject again.
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  • You will not sign the house over. Your heart is broken that your mother is doing this to you. The house was your father's, and is rightfully yours, but he allowed your mother to have half of it to protect YOU, and now she has shown her true colors AGAIN by trying to hurt you.
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  • Your mother has demonstrated she doesn't care about you, OP. She only cares about material things. You need to protect yourself and block anyone that is siding with her. It s s, but at least you have your Dad. Lean on him as much as you can and focus on building a future without your toxic mother in it.
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  • Alert-Artichoke-2743 The child support money was invested in a house. The house is yours. Your mom is a gold digging d dbeat. She would not need you off the lease unless she intended to kick you out. My suggestion is that you stay and refuse to relinquish your claim. Consult a lawyer and learn what rights you have. You can't make her sell her half, but it sounds like she might be forced to if she runs out of money, which seems likely.
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  • Strong Passion_1482 She's been collecting receipts for 3 months so she can try to file bankruptcy
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  • Fun Possession3299 Nope. Take your half. The whole half.
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  • ChumbawumbaFan01 Let her know your child support bought that house and if she doesn't like it she can move to the trailer park she was looking at years ago. I love trailers and trailer parks, btw. They are a really great place to raise a kid and the fact that your mom stigmatizes them shows just [how] trashy she is.
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  • Traditional_Koala216 Do not sign over your half. Your father did what he did for a reason. To protect YOU.
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