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Joint AST, are there any rights to block visitors?

Any advice from experienced LLs would be appreciated!!

My partner and I are splitting up. We are halfway through a 6-month joint AST and she has forced me to leave. I've been paying all the rent and paid the deposit at the start.

My question is: can I stop other adults coming to stay in the house that I'm paying for for the remaining three months, or has my wife a contractual right to invite whoever she chooses?

My thoughts are that this would be a subletting and therefore a breach of the agreement we signed, but I can't find any reference in my contract to situations where visitors stay with no money changing hands.

Thanks in advance!

Comments

  • sooz
    sooz Posts: 4,560 Forumite
    Hi,

    I am afraid visitors are allowed, and however anrgy you are about the break up, there is nothing you can do to stop her having visitors staying.
  • tr3mor
    tr3mor Posts: 2,325 Forumite
    You're moving out and carrying on paying for her to live there?

    If I was paying for something I would want full use of it. It's your flat as much as hers.
  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    if you are not living in the house, she is contractually obliged to pay all of the rent. is there a child of yours living with her ?
  • Notlob
    Notlob Posts: 335 Forumite
    clutton wrote: »
    if you are not living in the house, she is contractually obliged to pay all of the rent. is there a child of yours living with her ?

    Hmmm! So if she also leaves the property, does that mean no one has to pay rent?
    Notlob
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