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Many thanks everyone, we're going to get some legal advice re forcing a sale. Not sure we're that bothered about the equity. If the ex gets half then so be it, at least it would be an end to the situ!0
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Got to get legal advice. You need a financial settlement to accompany your divorce otherwise you have that muddying the picture even if you did manage to liquidate the house. I would suspect that your best bet is to try to deal with it in one go and get a settlement that covers the fate of the house.
As for the mother living there, you just need to be very careful that she is an excluded occupier and not a tenant. As neither of you owners live there, she becomes a tenant with protected rights if she pays any rent at all.
Child maintenance and custody is totally separate issue thankfully, there is another board that can help you with that, but i would suspect that you are best off resolving financial settlement and house first so that your respective situations are totally clear and unlikely to change when you get to the child situation. Unless you want main custody rather that just a fair settlement of some kind, in which case you probably have to get moving anyway.0 -
Thanks Prince of pounds. She doesn't pay any rent and won't let us in to do anything to the house. we've tried. Is she therefor automatically an 'excluded occupier', or do we have to do anything? And I presume this is better that she is?0
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