Attorney mortgage from a lender who reads BigLaw associate W-2 + Cravath scale bonus, equity partner K-1 partnership distribution, non-equity (income) partner elevated W-2, solo practitioner Schedule C, plaintiff contingency lumpy income, and in-house counsel W-2 + RSU as one income picture.

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Which loan program fits your attorney mortgage situation.

Seven loan-program categories cover essentially every attorney file we’ve closed. The mix tilts heavily toward Conventional Conforming and Jumbo with rigorous channel-specific documentation (B3-3.1-01 W-2 for associates and non-equity partners, B3-3.4-02 K-1 for equity partners, B3-3.3-02 Schedule C for solo, B3-3.1-09 RSU for in-house at public companies). Bank Statement and Asset-Depletion Non-QM serve specialty cases.

Attorney mortgage by career stage.

A timeline view of how the right mortgage program changes as you progress from junior associate through senior associate to non-equity partner, equity partner, solo practice, plaintiff bar, or in-house counsel roles.

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Equity partner at an AmLaw 100 firm for 8 years after making partner from the senior associate ranks at the firm. Partner with substantial practice in corporate M&A and private equity transactional work serving institutional client base. K-1 partnership distribution averaging $2.85M over the 2-year period from Form 1065 partnership return covering both the base lockstep share (allocated according to the firm’s modified lockstep compensation methodology with tenure-based share weight) and the origination credit allocation (substantial origination from key institutional clients in the private equity space producing significant matter generation across the past 5 years). Capital account at the firm approximately $1.6M from accumulated capital contribution made at the time of partnership and retained partnership equity from undistributed firm profits. Plus active Florida Bar standing with no material disciplinary disclosures and active leadership role in two ABA practice section committees. The first lender saw the K-1 partnership distribution structure on the tax returns and the Form 1065 partnership return, called the origination credit allocation component "variable performance-based not stable for jumbo qualifying" despite the documented 5-year continuity, refused to apply Form 1084 cash-flow addbacks at the partnership level to recover firm-level depreciation and amortization for non-cash deductions, treated the K-1 income with conservative discounting, and offered the partner $1.45M Conventional Jumbo based on the conservative K-1 treatment alone. We pulled the two complete Form 1065 partnership returns with Schedule K-1s for the partner showing the full distribution including both lockstep base and origination credit components, the partnership agreement documenting the modified lockstep compensation methodology and the origination credit allocation framework, the partnership capital account statement showing the $1.6M capital account from initial capital contribution and retained partnership equity, the multi-year origination credit history showing the 5-year continuity of substantial credit allocation from the key institutional clients, Schedule L (balance sheet) from the partnership return for partnership-level Form 1084 cash-flow addback analysis recovering depreciation and amortization at the firm level, and the Florida Bar standing verification through Bar records. Applied Form 1084 cash-flow addbacks systematically at the partnership level recovering the firm-level non-cash deductions and ran the 24-month average under Fannie Mae B3-3.4-02 with multi-source documentation across the lockstep and origination credit components. Total qualifying income: approximately $2.45M. Approved at $2.65M Conventional Super-Jumbo for a Boca Raton home in 46 days. Equity partner K-1 partnership income with origination credit allocation and partnership-level Form 1084 cash-flow addback recovery is the standard equity partner qualifying pattern — the first lender just didn’t know how to read AmLaw 100 partnership K-1 structure with proper Form 1084 application.