Intentional---perhaps. But not illegal at all. Wives get husbands to buy expensive jewelery all the time---nothing new about that. If it were illegal, even my wife would be in jail.

Your name was never on the property, so it never belonged to you. If the property increased in value while you were married and she transferred it back to family to avoid your claim in the divorce, you could have made a claim anyway on her share of the increase in value to the extent that you or she participated in making the value increase.

But you are now making mention of this 7 years later---the divorce is long over and it is almost certainly too late for you to anything about the property transfer-----I'm sorry.

I wish you well.

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