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Ideal_Rock
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So a good friend of mine broke up with her boyfriend of 12 years. They lived together and had purchased a house in both their names right before they broke up. He moved out about a year ago. Prior to that he made a few fractional contributions to their mortgage payment (as he was unemployed), but not remotely half. They did not have combined finances; my friend has a paper trail to prove she made most of the payments.
She cannot get his name off the mortgage without paying thousands of dollars to the bank- which she simply cannot afford to do at this time. She is quite concerned because he''s been claiming he owns half the house''s equity, and when she sells it, he wants half the money from the sale; he says since she kicked him out, he is forced to pay rent and he wants her to pay that too. While this is pretty obviously ridiculous, she''s still freaked out. While it may come to her having to speak to an attorney- they probably qualified as common-law spouses- I figured I''d ask here for her first. Anybody got any idea if the bank would automatically cut a check for half the sale of the home to him just because his name''s on the title? Even if she can prove she made most of the mortgage payments? TIA
She cannot get his name off the mortgage without paying thousands of dollars to the bank- which she simply cannot afford to do at this time. She is quite concerned because he''s been claiming he owns half the house''s equity, and when she sells it, he wants half the money from the sale; he says since she kicked him out, he is forced to pay rent and he wants her to pay that too. While this is pretty obviously ridiculous, she''s still freaked out. While it may come to her having to speak to an attorney- they probably qualified as common-law spouses- I figured I''d ask here for her first. Anybody got any idea if the bank would automatically cut a check for half the sale of the home to him just because his name''s on the title? Even if she can prove she made most of the mortgage payments? TIA