Re: Common law husband rights re.property sale


steve2309@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi all,

I know that there is no such thing as a common law husband/wife but it
was the easiest way to express the nature of my post!

Here goes:

My father lived with his girlfriend/partner for 17years but never put
his name on the mortgage (he moved into her house after her husband
moved out). However, he has paid easily half (probably more actually)
of all the outgoings over those years as well as driving her to and
from work every day (despite having to get to & from his own place of
work) & everywhere and anywhere she wanted to go at weekends. He also
spent £10,000 of his own money on a new kitchen she wanted so has
definitely paid more than his fair share as an equal partner. In fact
she wouldn't have been able to live there once her husband had left her
if it wasn't for my father paying the mortgage for her in the first
year they were together.

Well, she died last year and left a ludicrous & completely unfair will
leaving my father absolutely nothing & stating that he is allowed to
simply live at the house until his death...


But what is "ludicrous & completely unfair" about her will? She has
allowed him to live in the house for the rest of his life; that is no
small bequest. It was her house after all, even if he did pay the
mortgage for her for one year.

Robert

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