My Recent Experience With A Quitclaim And A Listing

This experience came with a new listing.The client told me that he was ready and every thing was in order,as I was deeper into the apt I found that my client had purchased the home on a contract for deed and had owned the home free and clear for over 3 years no problem right? Wrong there was a problem! As I began to ask more and dig deeper, I learned of the seller who issued the contract for deed had a death of a spouse before the deed for contract had been finalised which was taken care of.Then My client told me that he had a divorce before the contract of deed was finalised and that the lawyer had taken care of all the paper work 4 years earlier. {hurdle # 1} When I asked for the legals the divorced spouses name was still on the legals so I contacted the lawyer who had handled the case and found out that the paper work for what ever reason never was sent to my seller or never recorded.{Hurdle # 2} When I dug deeper, divorced spouse of the seller had been remarried before the contract for deed had been finalised WOW! Now I had no way to legally list the house until this was cleared up.Let me try to clear this up!The divorced spouse of my seller has been remarried and her new husband now has half of her interest by marriage of her half interest of my seller interest and to make matters more complicated my seller is to be wedd in less than a month just for an added twist.To make a long story short, I was able to get the x and her new husband to sign again because she had gotten remarried it had to be done for the paper work from the divorce had been sent to both parties but never recorded ,then filed quitclaim with the original divorce papers and the paper work from the new husbands signature signing off. 30 days later we had a valid listing sold and every one lived happily married ever after."Yeah". Just goes to show what can happen in Real Estate little things with paper work can be forgotten or lost in the shuffle with buyers and sellers but I love it!