ChatterBank1 min ago
Divorce and property
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I am separated from my husband - been apart now for 4 years although nothing legal was organised. I want to divorce him next year when, hopefully, he has a job and I won't have to pay maintenance. If I buy a house in the meantime, will he be able to make a claim on it?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If you've been living seperately for 4 years and you buy a house on your own he should have no right to claim any part of it. I assume from the question that children are involved with your reference to maintenance. Who got the original home? and was any equity shared?
A good family solicitor will advise you as will the citizens advice on these matters.
A good family solicitor will advise you as will the citizens advice on these matters.
We do have two teenage children. They live with me, but a solicitor told me I'd have to pay maintenance if my husband couldn't afford to provide a home that they could visit him in. We own a house in the USA - in my name - which hopefully will be sold by the summer of next year. I fully intend to give my husband 40-50% of the profit we make on that.
I just wanted to make sure before I took the plunge a bought a property in the UK that my husband would have no rights to a share of it in our divorce.
I just wanted to make sure before I took the plunge a bought a property in the UK that my husband would have no rights to a share of it in our divorce.
I think the way to go here is to follow Law Man's advice and contact the CAB.
In answer to your question, Ummmm, he hasn't got a job because he's looking for a specific kind of employment and won't take anything else in the meantime. Unfortunately, he can't quite see that his tunnel vision in this respect is affecting a lot more people than just him.
Oh well, these things are sent to try us. Thank goodness for AB!
In answer to your question, Ummmm, he hasn't got a job because he's looking for a specific kind of employment and won't take anything else in the meantime. Unfortunately, he can't quite see that his tunnel vision in this respect is affecting a lot more people than just him.
Oh well, these things are sent to try us. Thank goodness for AB!