Q: If one home owner abandoned Are both owners inturned to pay the property taxes and mortgage payments? Who owns home now
Bf and I bought place together. Then he may someone else, and left me to pay for the mortgage on the property, and the property taxes. I paid the home off alone and now he claims he owns this house
A:
Because you and your BF are on the deed, you both own the house. This means that both you and him have the right to use the property, and it can only be sold with both of your signatures.
Your best option to recover your BF's portion of the mortgage is to refuse to sell unless he agrees, in writing, to pay his portion out of the proceeds.
Alternatively, you could request a judge to force a partition sale, and in the process, request that he be forced to pay for his portion of the mortgage.
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