2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 15 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 15-5 - Divorce and Separation
Chapter 15-5-10 - Disposal of certain real estate after filing of complaint.


RI Gen L § 15-5-10 (2012) What's This?

§ 15-5-10 Disposal of certain real estate after filing of complaint. – At any time after the filing of a complaint for divorce from bed, board, and future cohabitation, and until a decree of reconciliation has been entered, the court, upon the petition of either party seized in his or her own right of real estate in Rhode Island, after notice to the opposing party, after a hearing on the petition, may, if the court finds that justice and the best interests of the party require, enter a decree permitting the party to sell, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of the real estate free of the rights of life estates created by chapter 25 of title 33 of the opposing party. The decree shall contain a description of the real estate sufficient to identify it either by reference to a recorded plat or otherwise, and a certified copy of the decree shall be recorded in the records of land evidence of the city or town in which the real estate is located.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1956, ch. 3692, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 15-5-10; P.L. 1979, ch. 373, § 11.)

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