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Hi, thank you for your comments. I wanted to get this sorted out when he left and had the house valued and offered him 50% of the equity. He would not accept this, he was difficult and take ages to respond to solicitors, letters, prompting my sol to chase, which was mounting up the costs. He would respond eventually stating he wanted to come to the house to meet me with no one else present, not even our children, this is at the point where a solicitor told me to give up, he knew due to his past violence, he couldn’t do that, another was that I would sign an agreement that he never had to pay maintenance for our children.
I don’t want revenge, at the same time I don’t want him to make it impossible for us to live our lives with debts just to pay out a greedy person. He once told me that he would not declare any earnings as he didn’t want to pay child maintenance.
I would be happy to pay him 50% of the equity as when he left, but he wouldn’t accept this. I just wanted to know how I could fight this without all of the legal expenses
Thanks again
Originally posted by boyzmummy
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Do you have the funds or are you able to get a mortgage solely in your name to buy him out? I'm surprised that your solicitor advised you to give up because if you had persevered you could have had your costs awarded against him to be deducted from his share of the equity for dragging his feet. That's still an option.