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Right to be secure in my home?

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aurora55 · 27/09/2015 10:33

Divorce in process, husband and I living in partitioned house with separate entrances as market so slow in the country. We live in a village. At the end of July my son and I went away for 3 days, returning mid-day Sunday to find our front door wide open. Imagined we'd been burgled but amazingly nothing taken, so realised husband had used his key to enter and left our door open - then had driven off to spend the weekend with his new girlfriend! A parcel in hall showed door had been open 26-48 hours. I sent him an alarmed text and he responded with very casual one word apology and no concern.

As we were going abroad 10 days later and I wanted to feel the house was secure I changed one lock. Now I have received a solicitors letter threatening me with an injunction if I don't give him keys. I have said he can have any reasonable access but don't want to give him the new key to our door.

He is cavalier about security - regularly leaves his door open to street when in garden. A week ago he again went away for the weekend and this time left his front door wide open until sending me a text mid-day Saturday. He's in his seventies, I'm much younger. Do my son and I have a right to be secure in the circumstances? What should I do?

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