Best way to evict my partners daughter (and baby)?

PotatoEyes

Hi All,

I'm sure this cant be a totally unique situation but I'm going round in circles trying to work out the best way forward.

My partner (Miss K) and I ahave been together for a few years now and we bought a house together last year (it's in Miss K's name since my credit rating was too bad for best deal at the time!), anyway, her daughter (21) moved in with us from the old house and then promptly fell pregnant and had a beautiful little girl 2 months ago. She has just signed up for a housing association place and told us that we need to serve her with an eviction notice that she can give to the council to help with her application and 'push her up the list'.

My question is - can anyone point me in the direction of some free templates for this? I had thought that it would be as simple as writing something like:

"we hereby give notice that your tenancy of (our address) will expire on (date), and you must leave by this time.

If you fail to comply the undersigned may commence eviction proceedings against you and/or exercise other available rights and remedies under the law"

But reading around suggests that things could be more fiddly than this? Any advice welcome.

Best,

James

Other info is that we dont have a tenancy agreement, we had an oral agreement for £50/week (which we waived after she became pregnant), but apparently it would be best not to mention this in the letter as the council might say she has made herself homeless? All we want is the house to ourselves and for young mum and baby taken care of.

Liquorice_Twirls

Isn't it just a straightforward letter to the council (not the daughter) stating that you are no longer able to house her from x date and that you need her room for your own personal use?

I'm not sure that you need a letter talking about tenancy as there is none anyway and all the council want is proof that you don't want her living with you anymore and she isn't telling them a tale in order to get higher up the housing ladder.

swingaloo

This makes me so mad. My son still lives with me and my partner because he simply cant afford his own place. Hes my son and as far as Im concerned until he can afford to get himself somewhere he has a home with us. I would never dream of 'evicting' him and expecting the tax payer to support him through benefits.

Thats the trouble with people these days - have a baby wether you can afford to support one or not- and get pushed up the list

C_Mababejive

You should hang your heads in shame IMHO.

You seek to manipulate the system in this manner to create another sponger on the state?

Cant she and the childs father get a home by other means?

delain

Oh yes because it's all so totally easy isn't it! I swear some of the more self righteous posters on this board don't live in the same world as the rest of us

It doesn't need to be legally worded, just write a letter to your partners daughter stating that she must leave your property on XX date. She can then show this to the HA. If they want confirmation they may write to/telephone you and ask.

swingaloo

Oh yes because it's all so totally easy isn't it! I swear some of the more self righteous posters on this board don't live in the same world as the rest of us

No it isnt easy. Thats why many young people are still living at home with parents and trying hard to find a way to get on the property ladder. - without resorting to sponging of the tax payer. We all live in the same world and many of us struggle, difference is we dont expect to cheat the system so someone else foots the bill.

delain

Well some of us have an untenable life at home, are genuinely evicted and still don't have a council tenancy 9 years on. Oh, and having a HA tenancy and being on benefits are not necessarily connected - the OP's daughter may well be working?

Being 'on the property ladder' seems to be everything to some people. Personally I can't imagine being at home at 25, I would have killed my mum or vice versa.

swingaloo

Well some of us have an untenable life at home, are genuinely evicted and still don't have a council tenancy 9 years on. Oh, and having a HA tenancy and being on benefits are not necessarily connected - the OP's daughter may well be working?


But that isnt the issue here. The ops opening post clearly states that they are trying to help 'push her up the list' and that will be to the detrement of someone else on that list.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Going to the council with a letter saying 'I need you to leave on x date as I am unwilling to house you anymore' would probably have the desired effect. The council may phone and try to get you to change your mind. They will often say that they don't have to house her at all, that she will be on the streets, just to get you to waver. (I have listened in on a call where this was said, BTW, it's not hearsay)

However, she then is treated as homeless, so could end up in B&B, a bedsit or the worst flat in the worst area possible, with no choice about where she lives. My local authority says they will send women hundreds of miles away to B&Bs - whether this is true or not is another matter, though.

Could she not rent privately and claim housing benefit?

creamcrackers

my daughter is 23 shes's a single working mum and living with me and my partner and our son ,she has been on the housing waiting list now for nearly 3 years. as my granddaughter is getting older
my house is getting smaller.

For the first time in 16 years a council property became availale to rent in the same road as i live,I wrote to council on behalf of my daughter expressing our interest,anyway some weeks later we received a reply from the council basically stating my daughter has
a 5/6 year wait.

The lady who moved into the council property in my street told so many lies to get the property(long story)and knowing the truth about her situation make me sick.

Don't get me wrong i love my daughter and granddaughter living with me but it has come to the point they need there own space, but i would never evict my daughter or my granddaughter or even pretend to.

What you need to do is ensure that the council is updated with any new information and also the more she bids on council properties the more she will further up the list in time,the only other option is private rent.

PotatoEyes

er...ok, well thanks for the replies all.

Think i'll go ahead with plan A (thanks Swingaloo) and just write her a letter asking her to leave in a few months time, some interesting points raised here that I would love to respond to if wasnt gone midnight (some of us have to work for a living

maybe tomorrow...laters