Joint Tenants and a baby; need advice

[oanh123]

There are joint tenants on title. The two joint tenants were partners, had a baby. The relationship ended. Partner that left, wants half of value of home. But there's a kid involved. Partner that left is not paying on mortgage. Partner that stayed is paying all by herself. What can she do? Partner that left does not deserve to have half but since vesting reads as joint tenants. How much is she entitled to? What can she do? Pls advise. She is also improving the home w/o his help. He's trying to make a profit out of it without having any concern for the baby. pls help.

 

[HomeGuru]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by oanh123:
There are joint tenants on title. The two joint tenants were partners, had a baby. The relationship ended. Partner that left, wants half of value of home. But there's a kid involved. Partner that left is not paying on mortgage. Partner that stayed is paying all by herself. What can she do? Partner that left does not deserve to have half but since vesting reads as joint tenants. How much is she entitled to? What can she do? Pls advise. She is also improving the home w/o his help. He's trying to make a profit out of it without having any concern for the baby. pls help.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


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Sell the property and give the proceeds to the baby. Baby 1, Joint tenants 0.

File for a partition sale and divide the proceeds in half after fair deductions of expenses the partner paid such as mortgage payments and fixing the home in order to sell. File for child support and have the Order sent to escrow to pay for past due payments.

 

[HomeGuru]

Do it now my third person singular partner.

[This message has been edited by HomeGuru (edited July 08, 2000).]

 

[Tracey]

You'll need to hire an attorney to handle the CS & partition petitions. Partitions are complicated: you get credited for your mortgage payments, but might get charged fair rent because you lived there.

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