A. Not necessarily. The distribution of property in a divorce is not decided by how title is held. The law presumes property acquired during the marriage is marital property and marital property is divided between the parties regardless of how title is held. A gift or inheritance received during the marriage, as long as it remains in your name, should remain your nonmarital property, and the divorce court should not give your spouse any interest in it. Nonmarital assets stop being nonmarital when they become part of a marital asset, like a jointly owned home.
Premarital property is another form of nonmarital property.
As long as a premarital asset remains in your own name, you may keep your premarital property. The rule is that marital property is to be divided in just proportions, that is, fairly. A pension plan is sometimes overlooked as a significant asset, but often it is worth as much, or nearly as much, as the equity value in the house. When the pension plan started before the marriage, only the part that accrued during the marriage is marital property. On a sensible basis.