Latigo's funny. You don't have the leverage, she does. You have $46000 invested, she has $4000 invested. You are 10 times more vulnerable to losing a large part of your investment in a partition sale. Count on paying a lawyer at least $5000 to $10,000. She doesn't have to pay anything. She can just keep on partying while you spend all the money and then the property is auctioned for $20,000 and the check has both names on it. She won't endorse it without getting half so then what? Back to court and more lawyer fees or do you cave and give her half and get on with your life?

I'm guessing she was a girlfriend who is now an ex-girlfriend.

Just goes to show you, never get financially involved with a girlfriend. Expensive life lesson from the school of hard knocks.