Becoming a single parent

BigAunty

-simmo- wrote: »

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1/ Could my partner and children only be rehoused once our house is sold? Or could this be done sooner? If so, how?

To understand the councils obligation to provide housing for the homeless, see the Shelter website. Those with children and no security of tenure past the next 28 days are considered a priority as long as they aren't considered to have made themselves intentionally homeless, leaving a property when they did not have to.

How a local council homelessness department would treat an applicant who sold their property after a relationship breakdown, I don't know.

Dognobs

As a dad should YOU not provide for YOUR children? If that means you have to live in a shared house in a room so be it. Or you could tell your wife to leave and become a single dad.

Mojisola

Dognobs wrote: »

As a dad should YOU not provide for YOUR children? If that means you have to live in a shared house in a room so be it. Or you could tell your wife to leave and become a single dad.

Single Dads living in a shared house could find it difficult to have the children to stay overnight. A lot of mothers would not want their children staying in a house and sharing the living areas and the bathroom with people they didn't know.

sunnyone

-simmo- wrote: »

Thanks for your reply. The issue here I think, is that when the house is sold, there is so much pressure on for her to get somewhere very quickly - what if that doesn't or can't happen?

You've never sold a house before have you :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:?

Unless of course you want a buy it quick merchant to offer you less than you owe on the mortgage.