<prompt> Human: My aunt and uncle are looking to buy some property as well as build a home on top of it in a more northern part of my state. Problem is, my uncle from his previous marriage has a lean on his house for 1.5 million that occured when his ex-wife had some debt issues that my uncle had no knowledge about. Because the money was spent during their marriage, its my understanding that their house cannot be sold and they cannot acquire property without all of their money going to paying off the lean. They had some discussions with a lawyer and he basically told them they were fucked. Are they fucked?Tl;dr uncle has lean from ex wife so cant buy property.  <response>: Id say hes fine. Tell him an unqualified stranger on the internet said his lawyer is wrong and that he should just go build a house.His bigger issue is going to be giving the 1.5m worth of codeine and Sprite back to his ex-wife. He really shouldnt have all that lean in his house still. 