My common law and myself have split after 10 years. We own a house together, have our own debts and will be splitting all joint items up evenly.
She currently lives in the house and we both put a certain amount of money into an account that covers the mortgage and all bills. I pay all of these from this account.
This has been a generally amicable split but recently someone else has come into my life that I am moving forward with. This has now irrated my ex. We do not have a formal separation agreement in place as everywhere I read it was not required. There are no kids involved.
My questions:
1. I understand I am repsonsible for half the mortgage as my name is on the mortgage/ownership of the house, but am I responsible to pay half the bills since she is living there? For example her long distance phone bills, HDTV, consumers gas etc,etc, etc.?
2. Once we get offers on the house, what happens if she does not accept the offer and I am willing to accept it to get the house sold before the market crashes further. Do I have any recourse since she is not being flexible?
thanks for your help
Questions123
She currently lives in the house and we both put a certain amount of money into an account that covers the mortgage and all bills. I pay all of these from this account.
This has been a generally amicable split but recently someone else has come into my life that I am moving forward with. This has now irrated my ex. We do not have a formal separation agreement in place as everywhere I read it was not required. There are no kids involved.
My questions:
1. I understand I am repsonsible for half the mortgage as my name is on the mortgage/ownership of the house, but am I responsible to pay half the bills since she is living there? For example her long distance phone bills, HDTV, consumers gas etc,etc, etc.?
2. Once we get offers on the house, what happens if she does not accept the offer and I am willing to accept it to get the house sold before the market crashes further. Do I have any recourse since she is not being flexible?
thanks for your help
Questions123
Comment