What canI do, in a bind

[IvanovaG]

Hi, im in a situation at the moment, with my daughter and her boyfriend who live with us and my son, the boyfriend pays me a gift towards rent each month, but my daughter has mental health issues, does not work and does not pay us any money towards her keep, she’s 21 & hes 24, there is no tenancy agreement, and hes a lodger and he seems to believe he has squatters rights, he doesn’t i checked with the council and he’s refusing to leave, so so i issued a eviction letter notice on Monday so the atmosphere right now very frosty and we arent talking.

I have a callendar and i write everything on there that me and my husband are doing and have on, tonight i found my daughter looking at it (she never does) i bumped into her and she looked really sheepish and on Friday me and my husband are going away for the weekend, and earlier i hear them whispering about something and im thinking - What would happen if when we come back on Monday to find they have changed our locks on our house?

My daughter is a changed person thanks to him, and hes from a broken home and has pretty warped ideas about parents etc.

Leagally what options do i have

Any help id really appreciate it, as im
in knots rights now

I wouldn't be leaving on Friday unfortunately unless he's out and has no way of getting back in. Do you trust your daughter not to let him back in?

Just Chuck them out. Squatters rights my arse!

I believe that if you came back and found the locks changed you could use reasonable force to regain entry to the house (NB if I don't know if the laws are different in different parts of the UK on this). So you could break a window or call a locksmith or involve the police.

It would seem to be extremely foolhardy to go away this weekend and leave them both inside, however. If you do, I would take documentation to prove you own the house so you can regain entry on the Monday, but what might they have done in the meantime?

It sounds like you're only evicting him, not her. So she's surely just going to have him round all the time anyway, how are you actually going to keep him out?

Lots of us are from 'broken homes' (if you mean people with divorced parents) without having become freeloading squatters.

Its a very stressful situation atm, and we just need a bit of space to get away its our house tho, just a bit worried about it all

The eviction includes both of them.

He isn't even a lodger.. He is dd's bf. Ring the police now and have him removed tonight. Why would give him such status?

I think you would be mad to consider going away at the moment. And I second having him removed by the police.

Agree with others. You need to cancel your weekend away and get this sorted. Once you've sorted all this out, you'll feel much less stressed .