johnharlin
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? California
I have a friend who is going through a divorce. The husband moved out of the home a week after she presented him with divorce papers. It was based on him having affairs with other women which he admits to.
He stopped paying the mortgage on the home when he moved out. That left her with $3000 per month in mortgage payments and another $3000 per month in living expenses. The husband was ordered to pay temporary alimony and is not paying it. She has two kids living at home. The divorce has been going on for a year and a half and she said she has gone through $70,000 of her own savings and that she cannot maintain the house much longer at that rate.
Rather than be forced into selling the beautiful home, such a home which she would never again be able to afford, she has decided to rent rooms. But she is afraid of telling anyone that she is doing this including her attorney.
She has tremendous fears about what she has done renting the rooms including that if the judge orders that the home be sold and her husband gets half, she will have to pay the renters to leave because that's the law in California that if renters are forced to leave you have to pay them a pretty hefty amount like 5-10,000 each, something like that.
She is also worried the husband will get half the rent of the rooms which would not help her meet the mortgage payments.
The point is that should not the law also be looking at the fact that this woman is renting rooms not to make a profit but renting the rooms for her own survival. Common property law should not exclude the circumstances that are going on in this case. And that even if the judge awards the husband half the house, then he should give the wife a time period to sell the home after the yearly lease expires so as to avoid even more penalties on this unfortunate woman. It also has to be taken into account that the divorce was due to his infidelities not hers.
I have a friend who is going through a divorce. The husband moved out of the home a week after she presented him with divorce papers. It was based on him having affairs with other women which he admits to.
He stopped paying the mortgage on the home when he moved out. That left her with $3000 per month in mortgage payments and another $3000 per month in living expenses. The husband was ordered to pay temporary alimony and is not paying it. She has two kids living at home. The divorce has been going on for a year and a half and she said she has gone through $70,000 of her own savings and that she cannot maintain the house much longer at that rate.
Rather than be forced into selling the beautiful home, such a home which she would never again be able to afford, she has decided to rent rooms. But she is afraid of telling anyone that she is doing this including her attorney.
She has tremendous fears about what she has done renting the rooms including that if the judge orders that the home be sold and her husband gets half, she will have to pay the renters to leave because that's the law in California that if renters are forced to leave you have to pay them a pretty hefty amount like 5-10,000 each, something like that.
She is also worried the husband will get half the rent of the rooms which would not help her meet the mortgage payments.
The point is that should not the law also be looking at the fact that this woman is renting rooms not to make a profit but renting the rooms for her own survival. Common property law should not exclude the circumstances that are going on in this case. And that even if the judge awards the husband half the house, then he should give the wife a time period to sell the home after the yearly lease expires so as to avoid even more penalties on this unfortunate woman. It also has to be taken into account that the divorce was due to his infidelities not hers.
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