I kept the marital house. I used an "opinion of value" done by a local realtor that both parties trusted.

During negotiations I also was able to get away with stating that the value of what was left behind was roughly equivalent to what was taken. Otherwise we would have gotten into the weeds pretty deep with appraising everything.

But yes - all of this needs to be sorted out in order to come up with the agreement on how things will get divided up.

Oh - and it's an incredibly common thing for the leaving spouse to presume that the LBS will stay right where they were left and do all the adulting for them. They have no concept that we will change or stop picking up after them.

On BD
H52, W50
T27, M26
S21, D23
BD-9-Mar-16
D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18
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