Congratulations on your new marriage!  

Title gets back the affidavit and the husband had 5 children from a  previous marriage and the deed had no right of survivorship which would automatically pass the rights to the wife.  

I believe what they REALLY want is for those costs to not be so heart-stopping, marriage-killing, etc., and with that I whole-heartedly agree!

See what happened wrong, their over budget items, ask them the important question: did it almost ruin their marriage??

Remember: in RE, it can be EASY to get into something but if you made a bad move it could be very hard to get OUT of something (just like a marriage:))

You'll save a bunch of money by not buying stuff, and it'll make moves easier on your bodies, minds and marriage).

In cases where the conveyance is pursuant to a court order or judgment like a foreclosure or dissolution of marriage the town clerk puts in $1.00 for the transfer when they record the muniment of title.

I know someone who had terrible experience with marriage.

But again, its like getting into marriage, make sure you test the waters first, don't go to the alter day one.

A few years later, we re-purposed a large walk-in closet to a master bathroom and went a little crazy (close to$14k), but adding a 3rd bathroom (and making a house w/out a master complete with one) paid dividends in value (and my marriage:) We went into purposely and for the "value add" component.Finance:  At the time my wife and I were only approved for a fraction of what we could afford due to renting out our home (with a large mortgage).