In Arizona if your property was purchased before you married and is only in your name and she has helped make some payments what right does she have in a divorce with no kids and she is an immigrant?

Answer 1

There is a distinction in Arizona between an "ownership" interest in property and a spouse's "lien" against the same property. Generally, real property (land and homes) owned prior to marriage and titled solely in one spouse's name is that spouse's sole and separate property. However, your spouse may be entitled to a portion of a "community lien" against the property based upon the payments and/or improvements made upon the property with "community" funds. In the end, it sounds as if the property should be awarded to you as your sole and separate property; although you may owe your wife some amount for her lien against the property.