deeds

[truffle73]

my husband and i divorced 5 years ago and he took his name off the mortgage and moved out. The mortgage is just in my name but his name is still on the deeds, how can i get it removed and what would it cost?

[MustafaTickl]

Phone your local District Land Registry Office who will tell you about and guide you through the process. It involves a couple of Land Registry forms and their fee which they will also tell you. However, most importantly you will need the signature of your ex in consent and you may have to buy him out, so it is not possible to tell you how much it will cost.

[dzug]

Fees depend on the value of the property - but it would be an expensive property that cost �200.

But as Mustafa says, that's not the main cost. If your ex doesn't want to give you his share of the property (which is what 'taking his name off the deeds' means) then you are going to have to buy it from him.

This assumes you didn't have a divorce settlement - if you did it depends on its terms.

[Loosehead]

Are you talking about actual deeds or do you mean the land registry entry? Presumably the lender agreed to your husband comming off the mortgage, normally they would also insist on his name being removed from the land registry entry because if they don't they effectively halve the effect of their "Charge" on the property. If you are only talking about actual deeds then forget it, they are irrelevant in most cases.