What would my girlfriend be entitled to?

[MrFrosty]

[Greedyfly]

What is your Question Frosty?

[ummmm]

Someone has hit enter..!

[MrFrosty]

Hi sorry seem to have put the question but no details the joy of trying to do these thugs on an iPhone.

Anyway I have been with my girlfriend for a year. Well officially I have been with here for 4 months. When I first met her she wanted to stay single. However she would come over to mine yet say things like this house could be half mine. Now I have said to her that's not right and it has causedany arguements and she hasn't said it since. Until last night when she jokingly said if we for married I'd have half your house if we got divorced and then after she said we don't have to be married for me to get half your house. Just her saying that has made me doubt why she is with me. She said it was a joke but i'm 29 saved hard for 7 years to get my house deposite and have had the house for 2 years paid all the mortgage and bills myself which has been hard. The thought of her just taking half scares me. Now if she moved in what would she be entitled too?

[4getmenot]

Go to your solicitor and write up an agreement

[lotsafun]

shes not entitled to jack Sugar mr frosty, firstly she hasnt been with you long, she has noot contributed to anything in the house and thirdly the house is yours. If i were you i would seriously doubt her intentions here, sounds like your her meal ticket!!!!

[rowanwitch]

many a true word spoken in jest...I'd run a mile or get a legal agreement drawn up before she moves in...she wouldn't be entitled to anything at first but as time went on she would be deemed to have contributed to the household and may at that point have a claim on any increase in value from the time she arrived....different if you have kids together though...

[Greedyfly]

Nothing really. There is no such thing as common law these days.

This may help.

http://www.contractsa...mon-law-marriage.html

[redman41]

I would tell her to clear off if her main priority is getting her hands on half the House.
Does she love you or the House ?

[Greedyfly]

As forget says get an agreement wrote up if she moves in because she will be contributing toward the household.

[ummmm]

If she moves in....NOTHING.

Keep all bills in your name....make sure everything goes out from your account as it is now. Charge her rent....

She can walk away with what she walked in with.

Don't marry her....

But if you do...unless you have children then not much is different. She sounds like the deluded sort that believes there is such thing as common law....there isn't.

[redcrx]

if she moves in, charge her rent as a lodger.

[Greedyfly]

Agree with the others also, it sounds like all she is after is getting what she can.... sorry

[ummmm]

You don't need a solicitors agreement. It's your house. In the eyes of the law she will be expected to contribute as every other person in this country. You can't have a free life...

Charge her rent....

That's not contribution...that's a living expense that we all must burden.

[ummmm]

She's allowed to take her CD's when she leaves though....

[Greedyfly]

lol Ummmm

Sounds like the best plan. That way she cannot take you for anything and if things do go awry then you are covered.

[ummmm]

You cannot claim what it not yours....

Like I've said before...if she renovates the house for you...yes she has an interest in it. If she pays her keep...then no she hasn't.

If it was the case that partners could claim other peoples houses just because they 'lived' with them....could you imagine the mayhem?

[brenda]

MrFrosty , you have a not very nice girl friend there -- please get rid of her and listen to what the others have told you. Please do not do anything silly--she is not worth it.

[McMouse]

Change the locks.

[Barmaid]

Unfortunately, ummmm, that is exactly what people do do! Claiming a beneficial interest by way of a constructive trust ("we agreed we would own the house but never got round to putting me on the title") or a resulting trust ("I paid for the new kitchen, conservatory etc") is the "new divorce". Whatever the merits of her claim, it could cause a whole load of costs and heartache just disproving her claim. Although a document drawn up acknowledging that on a split "we each take what we came with" will not prevent a claim, it makes it significantly less likely.

[rachael88]

she will not be intitled to anything unless you get married, but would there be a reason to get divorced