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House committee advances bill allowing sole owners to sell homestead property without spouse's signature
Summary
The House Business Committee voted to send House Bill 150 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after testimony that the measure would let people who owned property before marriage sell that property without a spouse's homestead veto; sponsors and a title-industry witness said the change would not affect community property rights.
The House Business Committee on Thursday voted to send House Bill 150 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation. The bill would allow an individual who owned property before marriage and kept it as sole and separate property to sell or refinance that property without the other spouse’s signature even if the property is claimed as a homestead.
Representative John Shirts, sponsor of House Bill 150, told the committee the change is limited to a single sentence in the new statutory section and is meant to remove an impediment created when a nonowning spouse can currently prevent the sale of separate property. "House Bill 150 is a pro property rights bill and really this change is contained in the…
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