Real estate:

If you have a house, condominium, vacation property or vacant land, you will need:

A copy of the deed (this is not the same as the description on your real property tax bill or receipt)
The name of any company or person or association with a lien against the property (house loan, home equity loan, line of credit, liens from unpaid utilities, unpaid homeowner association dues, any judgments against any owner) related to debt associated with the property
The approximate present balance of the debt secured by each lien
Who is going to be responsible for the payment of each such debt and the consequences of non-payment
Whether any debt is to be refinanced and the consequence of the failure to refinance
When does the person receiving the house receive sole possession
What happens with the personal property in the house

Motor vehicles (including cars, trucks, motorcycles, motorized scooters, boats, trailers and watercraft

The date, make and model of the item, the identification number
The name of any company or person or association with a lien against the item related to debt associated with the item
The approximate balance of the debt secured by each lien
Who will be responsible for the payment of each such debt and the consequences of non-payment
Whether any debt is to be refinanced, by whom and the consequence of the failure to refinance

Bank and savings and loan accounts

Name of the institution, last 4 digits of the account number, names on the account, approximate value, date of division, what the division will be (a percentage or specidic dollar amount) and how the division will occur (electric transfer, cash, certified check)

Personal property and household goods

Ideally all of this will be physically divided already but if not, list the items in excruciating detail
The name of any company or person with a potential lien against any individual item of personal property
The approximate balance of each debt (other than credit card debt) associated with any item of personal property (including household goods)
Who will be responsible for each such debt and the consequence of non-payment of such debt

Securities (stocks, bonds, mutual funds and like property NOT held in a retirement account)

Life insurance

The issuing company, owner of all policies with cash surrender value, the name of the insured and the net amount of the cash surrender value
The amount of any loan against each such policy
The division of the cash surrender value and how that will be paid out or accounted for in the division of property
The person responsible for the loan

Retirement (pension, profit sharing plans, IRAs, 401(k), 403(B) and like accounts

Name of the institution holding the account, account numbers name and the valuation date for the account or amount to be set aside to the non-account holder
The method of division or payout
Whether the non-account owner will be named as the surviving spouse with respect to a pension

Interest in a trust

The name of the settlor of the trust, the name of the beneficiar(y)(ies) to the trust, the value of the interest in the trust and the allocation of the trust asset(s)
Specifically how the assets will be divided or the value considered in the division of property

Interest in any pending litigation or suits to be filed

A description of the pending litigation or claim
A designation of who has the authority to settle the claim and how the proceeds with be divided or the value considered in the division of property

Miscellaneous property

How any other property not identified above (a patent, a copyright, a screenplay, etc) will be divided and how any equalizing payment will be made or considered in the division of assets

Debts

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