Re-jigging house after separation

Old_Git

jennyjelly wrote: »

Thanks jimbog, we've already been given that bit of advice by many many people!

Good point PlymouthMaid Maybe I should just bump him off and done with

do a brookside bury him under the patio

Ms_Chocaholic

jimbog wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8a40OZtH0M

start around 11:00

That's brilliant :rotfl::rotfl:

persa

lincroft1710 wrote: »

You may end up with 2 Council Tax bills, if you have 2 self contained units. Shared utilities and no locks on the doors won't affect this.

The place where I live looks and feels like a HMO, but the council assessed our LL for council tax on each room. You'd be surprised as to what they consider separate dwellings. Lincroft1710 makes a really good point.

moneyistooshorttomention

On a totally different tack is the question as to what happens if either of you need to claim unemployment benefit?

Maybe you are both old enough that that doesn't apply? If you are both on pensions, then forget what I am about to say...

....but if one or both of you is still working age and getting their income from employment, then that could change to that person becoming unemployed and needing to claim the Dole. I can just see the Department for Work and Pensions trying to claim that they think you are a couple still and then proceeding to tell the employed one of you that they must support the unemployed one of you (as they had no intention of paying them benefit after the first 6 months, or whatever-it-is these days).

xylophone

all I want is to live on my own)

If you meant this then you would not be considering this arrangement?


You will be sharing the utility room ( or are you continuing to do each other's washing)?

You are keeping a joint account and sharing all bills.

If you really wished to live alone (rather than in a shared house which is what you describe amounts to), you would sell the property, split the proceeds and buy a property each?

Errata

OP - what you want to do may be perfectly reasonable IF you've identified and understand ALL the risks that can occur both now and in the future.

bouicca21

Divorce is a horrible stressful experience. I cannot imagine any circumstances under which I would be happy living in the same house as my ex. I actually moved some distance so I wouldn't risk meeting him in the supermarket ... He had the idea that we could split our family house in two and continue living there too. Delusional.

If you really are on sufficiently good terms that you can live under the same roof why not just treat it as a house share?