Apologies in advance for the long post.
I am at my absolute wits end and I just wanted to see if anyone else had any experience of this and can help.
I split with my ex husband around 4 years ago and filed for Divorce as he was abusive. The Divorce is anything but amicable. I finally got a Decree Nisi last year but he has made everything difficult at every turn. We have a joint property, which is the last thing to be sorted before the Divorce is finalised. He has pretty much never paid a penny towards the mortgage or bills since the house was purchased 7 years ago.
He made an offer to buy me out of my share in July 2021 which I accepted as I just want rid of this house, the caviat being that if he was unable to buy me out the house would be sold. The papers were drawn up and I signed them.
Since then, I have had to wait for him to sort accounts out etc as he is self employed and never done accounts apparently. I waited again. I then got an email from his solicitor to ask if I would agree to stay on the mortgage for another 2 years!! I have been in a new relationship for 2 years and we will want to buy a house together not to mention if I stayed on it he would probably not pay the mortgage.
The house is empty now as I live with my new partner. My ex can't get a mortgage, he won't agree to rent the house out, he won't move in to it and pay the bills as he wants me stuck paying them so I can't move on and he wont sell the house.
Apart from taking him to court to force a sale which I don't want to/can't do as I have already paid thousands in solicitors fees, I don't know what else to do. Please help me!!!