Could my partner take my house from me if we were to split ?

nozzy

Split with her first - then buy the house

Willpower?

Not sure it's been explicitly mentioned, but if you do split up the maintenance awarded may be enough to force you to sell your home even if she is not awarded it/part of it.

The IMO amount awarded can't always be predicted and will depend to some extent on the personal whim/mood/experiances of the judge, but I imagine the longer you are with her the larger the settlement is likely to be.

See some of the recent divorce cases where up to 50% :eek: has been given when the spouse has claimed (rightly or wrongly) that they contributed to thier husband career. Only a matter of time before someone tries something similar with partners.

Willpower?

Gorgeous_George wrote:

Top advice for any 'young ladies' out there is to have each child with a different dad. Three kids earning you 15% of each of three wages is almost twice as much as getting 25% from one wage.

Now that's maths schoolchildren could get interested in. 7 Children and you would be earning more than your lowest paid provider. Not to mention Government top ups

thesaint

Willpower? wrote:

Not sure it's been explicitly mentioned, but if you do split up the maintenance awarded may be enough to force you to sell your home even if she is not awarded it/part of it.

The IMO amount awarded can't always be predicted and will depend to some extent on the personal whim/mood/experiances of the judge, but I imagine the longer you are with her the larger the settlement is likely to be.

See some of the recent divorce cases where up to 50% :eek: has been given when the spouse has claimed (rightly or wrongly) that they contributed to thier husband career. Only a matter of time before someone tries something similar with partners.

There is not a marriage to be divorced from.

Willpower?

thesaint wrote:

There is not a marriage to be divorced from.

I know, that is why I said it is only a matter of time before some TRIES to apply the precedent to partners...

delluver

iolanthe07 wrote:

Oh for the days when a couple courted, married, had children (in that order) and then stayed together for the rest of their lives. Our grandparents' generation managed it - why can't we?

It was hard to divorce and women were less independant making it harder to go their seperate ways even if they suffered beatings lol.

VickyM_2

iolanthe07 wrote:

Oh for the days when a couple courted, married, had children (in that order) and then stayed together for the rest of their lives. Our grandparents' generation managed it - why can't we?

Did they?? Both my grandfathers had one family, got divorced, remarried and had a second family, in the 30s and 40s. My mother's father started his second family before he was divorced from his first wife as well. Please don't romanticise the past, it doesn't help!

thesaint

Willpower? wrote:

I know, that is why I said it is only a matter of time before some TRIES to apply the precedent to partners...

Do you believe that no one has tried to set a precedent? I have heard so many times of this, it's not anything new to test.

Willpower?

thesaint wrote:

Do you believe that no one has tried to set a precedent? I have heard so many times of this, it's not anything new to test.

No, I was just correcting your implication that my response assumed he was married. It didn't if you read it properly.

Just because the precedent has not yet been set doesn't mean that it never will.

PeterPiper66

well if I was you I wouldn't even be thinking about getting a house together, It sounds like you need to start looking into your rights for access to your child when you split up (just by going off your posts here)