QLD Financial advantage

[Tony G]

What should you do if your partner breaks up with you.and you feel they have used you and gained a financial advantage from you.

 

[sammy01]

Mate - you probably need to ask questions in the family law section. But you're not likely to get any assistance from the police. You haven't given enough detail to give any more of an answerthan that

 

[Tony G]

Mate - you probably need to ask questions in the family law section. But you're not likely to get any assistance from the police. You haven't given enough detail to give any more of an answerthan that

Thanks mate,
What I've read ' financial advantage ' is not a family law issue.
Long story short we started dating and within a couple of weeks she aggressively moved in, changed her address to mine and pushed the relationship. Spoke of buying together asap, she was in a good position financial but I was a sole parent just getting by. She said whe was a great saver so we agreed that I would continue paying all bills and she would save for house deposit.
She organised a preapproved loan in her name only, we found a property and agreed to make an offer and purchased. We agreed to use her loan and she would add me to the account to make it joint and we would refinance in 6 months in both names. We put allnoutlr money and wages in that account and after 9 months she walked up and said it was over, just before the 2 yr default to relationship kicked in. She told me I wasn't getting anything from the property so went to bank and got a small amount of money out of the joint account so I had something then she went in and took me off the account.
I am going through family.law atm but not sure how that will go as it didn't make the 2 year defacto requirement.
So looking for other options available.

 

[sammy01]

ok - the defacto 2 yr thing is a bit of a myth... Courts are a bit more common sense than 1 yr 264 days = nothing. BUT 2yrs +1 day = something.
Here have a read:

Two year time requirement - property disputes

lawhandbook.sa.gov.au

So look - time matters BUT so does

• the degree of financial dependence or interdependence between the couple and any arrangements for financial support between them

Two year time requirement - property disputes

lawhandbook.sa.gov.au

Tony - I"m being nice... You're single dad? and now you have this mess with another chick? you have bad taste in women... But you probably don't need some wise guy on a keyboard telling you that right now... Sorry to hear your troubles.

 

[Atticus]

What I've read ' financial advantage ' is not a family law issue.

Committing fraud to gain financial advantage is a criminal charge... All you can do is report it to police.. I can almost guarantee they will not be interested in pursuing it.

Via family court? .... Unless you can demonstrate that you made a substantial & significant contribution to the acquisition of property (real estate) it's really not going to be worth you pursuing, even if the relationship was over 2 years. One of your problems is you AGREED to all this ...... As the loan & property was in her name, at best you would get an order for 50% of any increase in value from acquisition to separation.

Very sorry for your position & I can sympathize with how you feel used & you may have been, but throwing good money after bad isn't going to help you.

 

[sammy01]

what sort of $$ are you out of pocket? look if you didn't have much in the bank when you met her then maybe this isn't worth the $$ of even talking to a solicitor about. Life lesson learned.

 

[Scruff]

Sounds to me like pursuing anything here is going to cost you a hell of a lot more than you've lost - especially if you do it in the Family Court.

As for fraud - not a chance unless you have something that proves intent. Without that, the Police won't touch it - they will view it as a civil matter.