If the marital home is registered in joint names does it matter if one party contributed more to its purchase when their partnership in it ends ?
By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 27 June, 2022No, unless they made a property relations agreement which said that the parties’ property rights were to be proportionate to their relative investment in the property, then they will be entitled to equal shares.
Where there is no such agreement and once a property is registered in joint names it is accepted that they intended for it to be equally owned between them. Only where marital property is registered in one party’s name is their room for arguing about ownership and the amounts each invested.