Can She force the sale of the house?

[Pandy]

Now she is saying that as a co-owner, she has the right to force the sale of the house.... trying to find something that shows that he has the right to buy her out at fair market value.

[standing on the sidelines]

Originally Posted by Pandy

No children, the fair offer was the numbers that she wanted and was made in writing through the lawyers. No separation agreement, no court action. Not married, common law, maybe.

Did she accept the offer through her lawyer?? If she accepted it and then changed her mind when she found out he was seeing someone then the judge will probably decide that she is just being spiteful. Make sure your friend saves any emails etc that she may send him.

[Pandy]

She did not accept the offer. The sticking point is a bill that he says she owes 1/2 of, and she says is entirely his. (in reality, even though the bill is in his name, she used 100% of the money, but, he is only asking for 1/2)
She has also stated to him that it is not about the money now, she wants us out of the house and will continue until that happens.

[KanataKathy]

Does this bill/debt have anything to do with maintenance or upkeep of the house? Unless her half share of this debt is large in relation to the equity in the house, (or the debt has nothing to do with the house) your BF may want to revisit his offer to his ex.

From what I've read on this forum, it is important that the offer to purchase her share is fair. Having said that, my lawyer doesn't seem to be adverse to hard negociating beforehand. I'm in a similar pickle myself.

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[Pandy]

When she was off of work, the money was used to pay her 1/2 of the mortgage and bills. Also her car payments and insurance. Luckily, they were only in the house for 18 months so the amounts of money are not huge, she wants 8,000 and he offered 5,000.

[Pandy]

well, it went to court, long story short, the judge looked through everything and told him to offer her $7,000. and then told her to accept it or it was just going to cost them both way to much money. Oh, and told her to "move on" I guess even he could see she was just being petty. When he figured it out, paying her the money basically means that she got free rent for the 18 months she lived here that is about it. And she has to pay her lawyer out of that money (no clue what that would cost) She thinks she won, he thinks he won. So it worked out for both of them. And for us, we get to stay in the house

I guess now my only real disappointment is realizing that where is really no law against gold-diggers. If you are taken advantage of, there is really no way of recovering your money without spending more in legal fees.