Patent ID: 8301469

Claim:
A process for generating an insurance quote to be charged applicants for a mortgage loan from a lender, wherein the mortgage loan is intended to fund a purchase of real estate by the applicants, the applicants comprise a legally cohabiting couple intending to purchase the real estate, and the insurance quote is for insurance insuring the legal separation or divorce of the legally cohabiting couple and is for the benefit of the applicants, the process comprising: gathering cohabitation data from the applicants concerning their cohabitation; entering the gathered cohabitation data into a computer comprising a central processing unit and memory storage means; determining the acceptability of the mortgage loan for the applicants and depicting the acceptability on a video monitor associated with the computer; obtaining data from a lender's electronic database, wherein at least a first portion of the data in the lender's electronic database is provided to the lender by the applicants in connection with obtaining the mortgage loan from the lender; automatically underwriting an insurance risk for purchase of the real estate in view of the data and the cohabitation data; generating the insurance quote for payments from the applicants to start with the mortgage utilizing the data obtained from the lender's electronic database, the insurance quote being for the provision of insurance to cover purchase of the real estate intended to be purchased by the applicants and for the direct benefit of the applicants using the mortgage loan upon the event of the divorce or legal separation of the applicants; and advising the applicants of the acceptability of the mortgage loan and providing the insurance quote to the applicants contemporaneously therewith if the mortgage loan has been accepted; wherein the applicants receive a reduced interest rate on the underlying mortgage financing to purchase the real estate is conditional upon acceptance of the insurance and entry into a contract therefor; wherein, if divorce or separation of the applicants occurs during the term of the insurance, the reduced interest rate reverses, and the pair owes the entity a higher interest rate retroactively to the insurance's origination date.