My ex moved out of our house 3 yrs ago and has refused to pay for any of the mortgage, rates ,strata fees and maintenance costs, i have had to pay for it all. Is she legally responsible for a portion of these costs if the house is in her name too.?
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- Thread starter neveragain
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Oh dear,
Were you married? are you divorced?
Oh mate, you need a solicitor. You are caught up betwen both family law and property law. This is way too complex to just accept the advice of a punter with a keyboard like me....
But I can tell you that you MUST not delay getting this sorted. Don't dare try and do this on the cheap - Plenty of good people have posted here about hand shake agreements and cash payments that have gone bad and are not enforceable in law. You will need her signature when you sell the house and SHE has no obligation to agree for you to have the profits from the sale....
And the fact that she has not contributed to mortgage, rates etc etc is important IF a judge was deciding how this asset should be divided BUT it is only one factor.
Were you married? are you divorced?
Oh mate, you need a solicitor. You are caught up betwen both family law and property law. This is way too complex to just accept the advice of a punter with a keyboard like me....
But I can tell you that you MUST not delay getting this sorted. Don't dare try and do this on the cheap - Plenty of good people have posted here about hand shake agreements and cash payments that have gone bad and are not enforceable in law. You will need her signature when you sell the house and SHE has no obligation to agree for you to have the profits from the sale....
And the fact that she has not contributed to mortgage, rates etc etc is important IF a judge was deciding how this asset should be divided BUT it is only one factor.
Depends. If they are claiming they own part of the property, I would say they are, but why have you not worked on settling your property ?
This is something where all the facts can be seen, and then someone can guess how a court may look at it, but you can do a formal settlement by agreement, but you need to know what it is that you are likely entitled too.
This is something where all the facts can be seen, and then someone can guess how a court may look at it, but you can do a formal settlement by agreement, but you need to know what it is that you are likely entitled too.
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