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Down Payment

  My wife and I have been married for 2 years and will be getting a divorce in the next few months. We bought our home when we got married two years ago and have always paid on time. She or I cam manage the current mortgage on our own. The question I have is we put a large sum of money down the first time will a bank allow the equity in the house to count as our down payment or will they expect us to come up with more money down when we refinance?
 
  No new down payment is required for a refinance if you have enough equity to reassure the lender that it's safe to make the loan -- and it sounds as if you do.
    Edith
Originally published on September 8, 2007
 
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