Staying in your partner's property during a divorce or separation

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Overview

You can register your 바카라 사이트˜home rights바카라 사이트™ with HM Land Registry - this can help stop your partner from selling your home.

You cannot apply for home rights if your spouse or civil partner owns the property with someone else - unless your spouse or civil partner would get all the money if the property was sold (also known as being the 바카라 사이트˜sole beneficial owner바카라 사이트™).

This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg).

If you바카라 사이트™re not married or in a civil partnership, .

Before you apply for home rights

You바카라 사이트™ll need to know if the property is registered in your partner바카라 사이트™s name, and its title number if it is.

You can search the register to find this information.

How to apply

You must complete a different application process for home rights depending on whether:

How long you can stay in the property

You can usually only live in the property until the divorce, annulment or dissolution has been finalised and a court settlement agreed.

You may be able to continue living in the property for longer, for example during an ongoing dispute about who owns what, if a court has made a 바카라 사이트˜continuation order바카라 사이트™ allowing you to do this.

What else you can do

You may be able to take legal action against your partner if they try to:

  • make you move out
  • stop you moving back into a home you바카라 사이트™re not currently living in, for example if you moved out temporarily

A solicitor can advise you about this.

  1. Step 1 Get support and advice

    You can get support or counselling to help you through the divorce process.

  2. Step 2 Check if you can get divorced

  3. Step 3 Make arrangements for children, money and property

  4. Step 4 Apply for a divorce

  5. Step 5 Apply for a 바카라 사이트˜conditional order바카라 사이트™ or 바카라 사이트˜decree nisi바카라 사이트™

  6. Step 6 Finalise your divorce

  7. Step 7 Report that your circumstances have changed

    You also have to tell other government organisations that you're getting divorced if: