Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Steps On How To Homestead The Home

By George Jackson


To declare a homestead property is very helpful in many ways. One is to protect your properties equity from creditors. It means that when declaring for bankruptcy, the process can help in protecting you to sell your home. Some federal governments and states have stated that a primary home or a primary residence is considered already as homestead. But in some states, officials will still be requiring the homesteading declaration document before the designation will be made official.

The processes involved here would include three different methods. First is declaring the exemption. Prior to any processes, evaluating the Alaska homestead laws of the state must be done first. The federal laws will allow you on exempting some certain assets from the bankruptcy proceedings to be able to avoid the creditors from claiming the exempted assets.

To determine if your property is approved for declaration. Only one homestead is being allowed for each owner. Thus, this person must be able to make sure that the property is owned by him or her before it is declared as one. Another important requirement is living in that house for at least a number of 1, 215 days and this house must also be considered as a principal residence before a bankruptcy is filed.

You must also consider some other properties that you own. Some of the states are allowing the citizens on claiming a property examination wherein they are not residing, only if these citizens can prove that they are the heads of those households. This means that they are the ones who are going to provide most of the financial support to those people living in the house.

Second is filing for the declaration. Since most of the states will not offer you the standard form, you will have the freedom to create your own. Or in some cases, you will need to purchase or to download the declaration form via online or having an attorney who would create it for you. However, you need to consider on filing from your own recorders office in the state or country to make the form official.

The completion of form and the drawing up of document. The form is required to include the name of owner, the address of homestead, and as well as its Assessors Parcel Number. Other contents that may be included are the property description, reason of interest, and the people currently living in the property.

To file the application to recorders office. If the form is filed, there maybe a need to pay for a nominal fee. With this case, hiring an attorney may not be needed. However, filing for the first time can be difficult to some, so an attorney can provide guidance.

And third is Leveraging the exemption. In this method, circumstances must be evaluated. The declaration and the exemption can both protect the owner in some other kinds of situations. An example for this is protecting your equity in the home from foreclosure. However, you can also be protected from some other lines or some financial claims though you are still not being declared for bankruptcy.

There are also some situations in which consulting and hiring an attorney is necessary. Declaring the exemption is not that complicated. Processes will only get complicated when it comes to legal circumstances that would trigger the utilization of it including bankruptcy and divorce. Thus, these circumstances can be resolved with the help of lawyers and also by understanding some legal terms such as home equity, encumbrances, exemptions, and liens.




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