Living in Florida
My ex and I were together for 20 years. I have a home that I've owned with my ex-finance since 1999, 10 years now, which is on the market. It's worth approximately $380K. He moved out almost three years ago with the stipulation that I would pay the house payment and he would pay taxes and insurance. He had said if the house ever sells I will be entitled to $200. His name and my name are both on the deed.
BACKGROUND: In 2004 he refinanced our existing mortgage with a loan in his name alone at $98K. Don't know how that happened but I now have no mortgage on the home. Five years later "his" mortgage is still at $95K, only $25K less than the $120K that we originally financed in 1999, 10 years earlier. Our agreement when he moved out was that I would pay "his" mortgage, have the payments deducted out of my checking account, and he would pay the taxes and insurance. I've just found out that he did not pay the 2007 property taxes, which the bank "forced" onto "his" mortgage, and he "forgot" to pay two months of flood insurance which was forced onto "his" mortgage at $1,800 for two months flood insurance. Due to the fact that the mortgage has really not decreased much over the last 10 years, I am now suspicious that he has commingled investments into the refinancing of the mortgage that he obtained in his name alone. He says he has not.
Now I am thinking about stopping these automatic mortgage payments from being deducted from my account until I get an explanation for the discrepancies and I am also concerned about am I or is he possibly entitled to adverse possession on this property? He has made all payments on the taxes except apparently for '07 since we built the home. He has been out of the home for almost three years now. How long can I hold onto the home without him doing something about it? Can he kick me out if it remains unsold? I feel I need to do something at this point, almost that I should demand something from him, stopping payments, possibly a quit claim deed from him and refinancing personally to get out of this mess. What would be your suggestions and/or solutions?
My ex and I were together for 20 years. I have a home that I've owned with my ex-finance since 1999, 10 years now, which is on the market. It's worth approximately $380K. He moved out almost three years ago with the stipulation that I would pay the house payment and he would pay taxes and insurance. He had said if the house ever sells I will be entitled to $200. His name and my name are both on the deed.
BACKGROUND: In 2004 he refinanced our existing mortgage with a loan in his name alone at $98K. Don't know how that happened but I now have no mortgage on the home. Five years later "his" mortgage is still at $95K, only $25K less than the $120K that we originally financed in 1999, 10 years earlier. Our agreement when he moved out was that I would pay "his" mortgage, have the payments deducted out of my checking account, and he would pay the taxes and insurance. I've just found out that he did not pay the 2007 property taxes, which the bank "forced" onto "his" mortgage, and he "forgot" to pay two months of flood insurance which was forced onto "his" mortgage at $1,800 for two months flood insurance. Due to the fact that the mortgage has really not decreased much over the last 10 years, I am now suspicious that he has commingled investments into the refinancing of the mortgage that he obtained in his name alone. He says he has not.
Now I am thinking about stopping these automatic mortgage payments from being deducted from my account until I get an explanation for the discrepancies and I am also concerned about am I or is he possibly entitled to adverse possession on this property? He has made all payments on the taxes except apparently for '07 since we built the home. He has been out of the home for almost three years now. How long can I hold onto the home without him doing something about it? Can he kick me out if it remains unsold? I feel I need to do something at this point, almost that I should demand something from him, stopping payments, possibly a quit claim deed from him and refinancing personally to get out of this mess. What would be your suggestions and/or solutions?
NOTE: In Florida, the duration of such possession under color of title is seven (7) years. To claim real estate by adverse possession without color of title, a person must have possession for a period of seven (7) years and pay the assessed taxes. Florida Code §95.16-.18
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