<div dir="ltr">She can get tax benefits, if she is making the payments. It may require proof that she is making the payments and that she lives in the house if there is an audit, but the IRS allows the equitable owner to take the interest deductions.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Jennifer Sohn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jennifer@sohn-law.com" target="_blank">jennifer@sohn-law.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am assuming she won't get tax benefits for the payments - is that correct?<br>
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> On Apr 20, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Barbara Byram <<a href="mailto:BarbaraB@dussaultlaw.com">BarbaraB@dussaultlaw.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Does that work for a daughter who is sole heir and receives the house? She wouldn't qualify on her own, but she can continue to make the payments.<br>
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> The mortgage doesn't have to be assigned, assumed or paid off. If the surviving spouse receives the property, they can simply keep making payments and no change is necessary.<br>
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> In situations where mortgages were in the deceased spouse's name only, do you normally get the mortgage assigned to the surviving spouse during probate? In a 30-year mortgage, we don't want to have the probate open for that long, there is no way to payoff the mortgage, and we can't get it assigned to the surviving spouse because she has no income.<br>
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