The home is often the largest asset — and the most fragile part of a settlement. I'm a Certified Divorce Lending Professional who helps you keep housing decisions realistic, keep the numbers defensible, and keep the mortgage piece from quietly unraveling an agreement after the decree.
A settlement can be fair on paper and still fail at the closing table. Support income that isn't documented the way lenders require won't count. An equity buyout that looks clean can be impossible to finance. A refinance assumed to happen "later" can stall when rates, income, or credit don't cooperate.
When a divorce lending specialist is involved before terms are finalized, those problems surface while they can still be solved — not months later, when the agreement is signed and the options have narrowed.
However you're involved in your client's case, the housing question touches what you do. Here's where I fit.
Most loan officers come from sales. I came up through loan operations and processing — more than twenty years of it — which means I think first about how a file actually gets approved, not how to close it. In divorce, where the details in an agreement decide whether financing is even possible, that difference matters.
As a Certified Divorce Lending Professional and a member of the Collaborative Practice Institute of Michigan, I work the way you do: through information, education, and clear communication. Quietly, carefully, and in your client's interest.
Send an introduction and I'll take it from there. If you'd rather just ask a question first, that's welcome too — there's no obligation and no cost.
I'll follow up within one business day. Your client will be met with the same care you'd expect — information, patience, and no pressure.
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