Legal Question in Family Law in Ohio

In Ohio, upon the divorce of the parties, the court will first classify all property (and debts) of the parties as either marital (thus to be divided) or separate (thus not to be divided). Property owned by one of the parties before the marriage will generally remain separate property upon divorce unless significant marital funds (income earned during the marriage) was expended into it. Thus if you and your spouse were to pay the mortgage for ten years on that property, then at the divorce, it would likely be that some portion of the home's value would become marital.

But if you were abble to pay the home and its other expenses off with non marital assets (like an inheritance or person injury settlement money or other money you had before the marriageO then the property would likely remain separate property completely.