What shar of a house

marvin

Not sure if this is the right place but.....

My mum died last October and just found out that the house she left to my sister and myself has her former partner (who she clearly did not want to in-herrit) as co owner (IE the register has both their names on it ) so does anyone know how much of the property is he entitled to on her death?

bryanb

50% I would imagine unless there is a mortgage or any other charge involved, then the lender gets first dibs.

tanith

that will depend on wether they were tenants in common or joint tenants...I would imagine.. Was there a will?

SquatNow

Were they married? If they were actually married he gets the entire house.

marvin

Ok some more details

No not married
No mortgage paid off a long time back (my mother paid that on her own)
I believe his share was to loan her the deposit for the house. (about £1000 around 1983)

Money she has long since paid back (but the fool named him on the deeds and never changed it!)

register says :
Registered Owner(s) : mum and partner of 58 address

says nothing else about the ownership of the property. (tennants in common etc)

And yes there is a will and it leaves the house to me and my sister with a life interest in staying in the property for the expartner, should he wish too do so.

However the fact that he is named on the title deeds tends to screw this up because he is entitled to a share, but what share no-one seems to know. (solicitors handling will less than bloody useless!)

terryw

marvin wrote: »

Ok some more details

No not married
No mortgage paid off a long time back (my mother paid that on her own)
I believe his share was to loan her the deposit for the house. (about £1000 around 1983)

Money she has long since paid back (but the fool named him on the deeds and never changed it!)

register says :
Registered Owner(s) : mum and partner of 58 address

says nothing else about the ownership of the property. (tennants in common etc)

And yes there is a will and it leaves the house to me and my sister with a life interest in staying in the property for the expartner, should he wish too do so.

However the fact that he is named on the title deeds tends to screw this up because he is entitled to a share, but what share no-one seems to know. (solicitors handling will less than bloody useless!)

Give the Land registry a ring or better still go there if is reasonably close. When a transfer takes place it is necessary to let the LR know if it is joint tenants or tenants in common. see this link to a copy of the LR form.http://www1.landregistry.gov.uk/assets/library/documents/fr1.pdf

and also
http://www1.landregistry.gov.uk/assets/library/documents/tr1.pdf

terryw