<prompt> Human: My wife and I are getting divorced. I dont want her and my daughter to be forced to move out of our house, but I cant afford not to extract at least a 50 equity. Are there any creative ways to do this that will enable them to to stay without putting themselves into debt via a new mortgage?Facts: - House worth approx 800K, owned outright. A court would probably award me way more than 50 in a divorce settlement, but I dont want to go that route. - Wife is a grad student who should be making 80K within 3-5 years, but for now is making essentially nothing. - We generally live paycheck to paycheck bad, I know and the house running cost is not an insignificant part of that; now Im out of the house and renting an apartment, thats being paid by life savings that were meant for retirement and wont last for long at this rate - so this isnt a sustainable situation: I need to pull my equity to get and stay in the black.Were way too young for a reverse mortgage; are there any other mechanisms through which I could extract my share of the home equity even if over the course of time while enabling them to remain?Assistant: sell the house. she gets 400k to go buy a different house and you get 400k to go do what you are going to do with your share.Human: Thats the obvious answer, but its not an ideal solution because then shed have to move out, which I dont want her to have to do for various almost entirely emotional reasons.  <response>: How exactly is she going to be able to afford a 400k mortgage?If there is a way for her to do that, carry on and this all works. If not - theres no magic way to make that happen. 