To think I should have been offered this?

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I'm wondering if anyone has successfully got a HA joint tenancy dissolved and taken out a new one as sole tenant in the same address?

I have been told by a solicitor that as we weren't married they cannot apply for an occupation order.
The HA have got a Domestic Violence policy, which I found yesterday, where it states the following: 'Where the perpetrator has restrictions not to return to the joint tenancy, we may accept a notice to terminate the tenancy from the victim and re-grant the victim a sole tenancy at the same address'.

They have never offered me this as an option. Only to be transferred to another property to end the tenancy or bid on the local system for a new property with any other HA to end this tenancy.

Sorry, cat pushed my phone and posted before I changed the beginning to say I've posted in lone parents but posting here for traffic.
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Have you showed someone from the HA a copy of their own policy and asked why it has not been applied?

Remember, you're dealing with individual people. They represent the HA, but at the end of the day they are just people doing a job - and people doing jobs are often mistaken. Have you confronted them and asked for this to be applied to you?

If you have, and they've said no then do they have a complaint procedure you can follow or anything like that? I'm sure they wouldn't want it going public that they are forcing a victim of domestic violence out of their home... So the local paper is an option if you get nowhere.

Not yet, I only found it later today. I'm going to call them tomorrow x

I think they ought to have offered it to you. I haven’t worked in family law for years, but reassigning the lease likethat was fairly common practice in my day.

Thank you x