Hi my mom just found out my dad has been cheating on her and wants to leave him. She wants him to sell the house so they can split the money and go their separate ways. The house is all paid off and although my dad was the one paying the mortgage my mom paid EVERYTHING else like electricity, gas, water, cable, everyone in the familys health insurance everything you can think of. The house is in both their names with my dad as the primary and the checking account the mortgage payments were taken out of was in a banking account with both their names on it too. He is saying he doesn't want to give her any money for the house and that he wants everything.
1) Is it possible for him to keep all the money if he sells the house since he is the primary owner on the house?
2)If they both agree they want to get a divorce do they have to get a lawyer to divorce them and go through that whole process or is there a different way they can be divorced that would be less expensive and extensive then getting a lawyer to do everything?

