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PasturesNew wrote: »If it's just 3-4 months I'd just live in it and leave it at that. No need for anybody to know anything.
It's your MILs house, she's staying with her partner, you'll move in for a few months, then move out.
No contracts, no agreements, just normal family moving about.
Except this is fraud.
Assuming the tenancy is a secure tenancy - a secure tenancy is one that is incapable of being assigned apart from in certain circumsntaces that are oultined in the 1985 Housing Act - none of which apply in your case.
The advice that Scooby and Jenny have given is incorrect you cannot create a joint tenant from a single tenancy (as the tenancy is incapable of being assigned)
Once our MIL leaves the property it is no longer her home, and the tenancy will cease to be a secure tenancy and can be ended easily by the council. You will have no right to remain and will be treated as illegal occupiers with no rights.
Take a step back and look at the situation. MIL was allocated a property 5 months ago, you are now looking at a way to engineer that you take over the tenancy. Why do you think that you should be given priority over anyone else on the wating list?
The council are unlikely to let this happen. You could, however approach the council and explain the situation to them. If you have chidren you may be classed as vulnerable under homlessness legislation and be offered accommodation.
In your original posting you make no mention of who pays the rent - if your MIL claims any benefit this will stops and the council will be alerted she has left (and if she does not tell them she too is committing fraud). As you are not the tenant you are not eleigible for HB.
I realise this is not the advice you wanted - however it is based on a knowledge of the law and is accurate.0 -
I'd get the MIL back ASAP and make her stay until it's all sorted. Or go find alternative housing.0
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