Divorcing but never lived together, will he be entitled to half my property...HELP!

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Hi I am looking for some advice on a non typical divorce. I have been married to stbxh for just over 2 years and together for 5 years, we have never lived together in that time. We chose to not live together (second marriage) until my teens have left home. We both own (mortgaged) our own homes neither of us have ever lived in the others house, land registry for both is in own respective names as is council tax is separate and our mortgages.

I have around 200k equity in mine and he has around 50-70k equity in his (unsure of his exact mortgage amount) I have an NHS final salary pension and he has several pensions but one larger one standing at around 100k lump sum at the minute, I am 45 and him 55.

Things havent been good for some time and I found him on a dating website several weeks ago and despite trying again it is clear we just arent good together and so it is over. He rang me last night and things got very heated (well he basically got heated and did a lot of shouting and hung up on me), then text me telling me he wanted a divorce. When I replied ok he replied "BIG MISTAKE".

My concerns lie around the disparity in our equity in each others property and that he could be legally entitled to half of my equity. As it is not a typical living situation I cannot find much info relating to our set up and how things would be divided. I am praying that he wouldnt really go for half but really need to get some proper advice.

So lovely legal Mumsnetters would anybody be able to shed any light?

Thank you so much

I did wonder whether my children would come into things if it did go to court. DD is off to Uni in September so will not be classed as a dependent but DS is at home until next September. His DC are all adults and havent lived with him since his first divorce 20 odd years ago.

No, I got divorced fairly recently and my exH didn't get any of the equity that I had before I married him.
As he has his own place I think he will get even less.
See a good solicitor and they will give you a ballpark figure of what he will be entitled to.
I was married to ex for 17 years, he had nothing, I owned everything before I met him. He got 10K. He was properly pissed off as he thought he'd get half of my house and then wanted to come back.
I said no.

Please see a solicitor. He can go after your pension which will be sizeable if it's gold plated nhs one

He can maybe ‘go after’ the two years she’s accrued during the marriage.

She should see a solicitor - if nothing else to ensure she is confident that a court would need some pretty compelling evidence not to just leave them both with their own assets in this very short marriage with no cohabitation or pooled resources (at any point).