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When someone borrows money using property as collateral, they sign a Promissory Note which states the amount of the loan, the interest rate, when payments are due, etc. Usually, the lender will require the borrower to also sign a Deed of Trust, which says that if the borrower does not pay the Note as agreed, the property can be sold to repay the loan.A typical situation would be a buyer getting a loan to purchase a property, or a property owner refinancing a loan, or an owner “taking money/equity out of the house,” often in the form of a home equity loan or home equity line of credit.The note itself simply states that there is a debt; the deed of trust gives the power to sell the property upon default. The Deed of Trust is recorded with the county recorder’s office, so that it is publicly known. In this way, the DoT secures the Note. The DoT is a lien against the property.When you purchase a property, an important step is to check whether there are any liens on the property. If you are using professional closing services (real estate agent, escrow company, title company, attorney), they should be doing this for you.If any liens exist, the buyer will usually want the lien(s) satisfied (cleared, removed) before closing so that they have clear title to the property. How does this happen? As part of the closing process, the existing liens are paid off by the owner and the buyer gets clear title. This is standard procedure in the closing process.That is the basic, everyday explanation. It gets more complicated if the current owner cannot afford to satisfy the existing liens, such as in a short sale or foreclosure, or if the buyer accepts the property subject to an existing lien. I’ll leave those for another day :-)

A divorce judgment does NOT automatically remove a person from the promissory note or the deed of trust or mortgage, even if the property is awarded to the other person in the divorce. The court has no power in a divorce action to order the mortgagee or trustee of a deed of trust to remove someone as an obligor under a note, mortgage or deed of trust.The short answer is that your ex-wife can get you off the mortgage only if she does a refinance of the existing mortgage or if she sells the property and the mortgage gets paid off. In real life, those are the only ways you’ll get off.(Oh, you’ll also get off the mortgage if she keeps paying the mortgage until the loan is entirely repaid. But that might take close to 30 years, depending on the length of the mortgage loan).Read on for a more detailed answer.Mortgages and deeds of trust are technically different from each other, but in real life they’re pretty much the same thing: a way for a lender to secure a loan to the property owner or owners. Mortgages are the common form for securing real property loans in some some states, deeds of trust are the common form for securing real property loans in other states. In real life, it shouldn’t matter.In real life there are only three ways to get off a mortgage or deed of trust. The first way is to have the property sold and the note secured by a deed of trust or mortgage paid off. The second way is for the party who gets the property to do a refinance of the note secured by the mortgage or deed of trust. The third way is that the mortgage finally gets paid in full.In California, and so far as I know every other U.S. state, if you don’t get an order in the judgment for the party who is awarded the property with a mortgage or deed of trust to get the other party off the mortgage or deed of trust by a certain date (typically 3–6 months, though it can be sooner or later), and if that is not accomplished, the property is ordered sold, then the party who no longer owns the property but is still on the mortgage is stuck and is at the mercy of the party who got the property in the divorce.Here is why remaining on the mortgage or deed of trust for a property awarded to the other party in a divorce is bad news:First, that means that the credit of the party who didn’t get the property is at risk that the party who was awarded the property and presumably ordered to pay the mortgage won’t make every mortgage payment on time. If that ever happens, it will have a terrible impact on BOTH parties’ FICO credit scores.Second, when the party who didn’t get the property in the disso goes off to buy a new residence, he or she will discover that he/she may not be qualified for a loan for the new residence. That’s because lenders will still treat the obligation secured by that original mortgage or deed of trust as an obligation of both parties, even if the disso judgment assigned the debt on the property divided in the divorce to the other party. For most people, they won’t have enough income to qualify for loans that total not only the amount of the mortgage or deed of trust on the new property they want to buy but also the amount still owed on the property now owned by the former spouse.So make darn sure to deal with any existing mortgages or deeds of trust in any settlement of a dissolution of marriage action, and be sure the court deals with that problem in any trial dealing with property division in a disso action.

In short, you should consult a lawyer. I’m a company director and a charity trustee in the UK, and the following represents what my own personal approach to the question would be, in that capacity, but should not be taken as legal advice in any way. I am not a lawyer and none of the following constitutes legal advice!There is insufficient information provided here to answer this question properly, as it really depends on a range of factors including the organisation’s place and method of constitution, it’s general activities and geographic areas of operation, and which regulations it is subject to. The specific piece of EU legislation linked in the question is part of an EU directive that lays out the minimum standards that can be expected for shareholders in companies constituted within EU member states. It represents a minimal framework to ensure a fair baseline exists throughout the EU, but it doesn’t prevent EU member states (or their constituent parts) from legislating further. As a result the specific regulations can and do vary between member states.Stemming from this, then, as a general rule of thumb, any full, voting member of a constituted organisation may usually propose items for the addition to the agenda of that organisation’s general meetings subject to the individual demonstrating that there is support from the wider membership. However, the specifics of how to go about this can vary between organisations, and it is always best to consult the organisations’ constitution before proceeding. It’s also worth noting that in jurisdictions that provide for the existence of unconstituted organisations, such organisations will often be subject to a similar type of document, such as a partnership agreement, deed of trust, or some other form of contract or legal document setting out how the entity should be run. If in any doubt with regard to your rights concerning an organisation you have some form of membership or association with, or that you hold some form of ownership stake in, you should always consult a lawyer.