Split with ex partner 2 years ago - not married.
Mortgage was in joint names, house was originally put on market.
He gets inpatient as living with new GF and wants to move on, so HE suggests he signs the house over to me.
As there was not much equity and original deposit was mine the house was signed over with no transfer of money. I had a solicitor and am happy he has no case for future claim on the house.
We agreed to split the furniture, a list was drawn up on email, he collected what was 'his' except a few items of larger furniture. The larger items were left as a) he had no where to put them, and b) he owed me £500 so it was agreed the furniture would stay as insurance against his debt (all documented on email).
eventually he paid me £100 and took one item of furniture.
He then contacted me and said he wasn't go to pay anymore and the rest of the furniture was mine if I cancelled his debt. I agreed - this was via text message.
Fastforward a few months and I get contact out the blue saying he is coming to take XY and Z. I tell him he cant, its my house and I have changed the locks and I have written agreement all remaining furniture is mine. He is now saying that if I'm going to play it like that he has taken legal advice (from a friend) and is going for 50% of everything I now have.
He has trouble managing money, he sold everything he originally took and I imagine has run outta cash and that's why he is trying to take more to sell.
Does he have a leg to stand on?