After dating for 2 months, my then boyfriend began extensive building work and couldn't live in his house anymore. He didn't want to move back home so I let him into my 1 bed mortgaged property. This was when he paid the first instalment of the costs to the builder.
He lived there with me for a year, without paying toward the mortgage or bills, and without helping with any housework. Totally free.
We then moved into his refurbished house and he paid the final bill. Some of the money was gifted from his parents to pay for this. I wasn't asked to pay anything as I was living off benefits due to ill health. I was also pregnant with his child.
I paid for costs of things like our shared car insurance, MOT, services, etc, furniture and furnishings in every room of the house, pet insurance and food, vet fees etc, new baby equipment, cleaner, all of it. He was mortgage free so just paid for utilities. I paid for the flat mortgage alone still, though used the rent money for this.
Eventually, some years later, long after the build was done and paid for, we got married.
And now he is claiming that our divorce should not be 50:50 split on the house, partly because of his family involvement in buying the house, and partly because I paid nothing towards the build costs.
Does he have a leg to stand on? I do have my own solicitor it I don't want to keep pestering her every time he brings up something new like this. But I will admit I am
losing sleep over it.
I feel so vulnerable with my disability, now that I can't earn and pay my way in life like I used to. I just wondered if anyone had any expertise that could help me with this.