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If you signed on the new note, you would be liable. It appears that she managed to modify the loan without you signing on the new loan - probably because she showed the bank that she is divorced from you and that the house was transferred to her alone.

In Utah, if the award of the house to your ex-wife in the divorce was conditioned upon her making the mortgage payment in full and on time, but your ex-wife as failed to perform that condition, you can go back into court seeking a modification of the decree of divorce, asking that the house be awarded to you or that the house be sold to remove you from the mortgage is liable party. You can also ask on a temporary basis that your wife the order to vacate the house and that renters be allowed in, if you have renters available, so that your ex-wife no longer has possession and occupancy of the house and you have a means of having the mortgage paid pending sale. There may be other options available to you as well, but these are the most common. You would be wise to have an attorney help you with this as opposed to trying to do it yourself, as doing it yourself will probably take a lot of time but you don't have and you wouldn't want to make a mistake.

You are basically entitled to one half of the increase in value or equity in the house to the extent that the increase is due to spending money on the house or personal efforts to improve it.