Sadly my db and his wife are seperating. They have been married for 10 years but have no children. They have always had very seperate finances, for example my db pays the mortgage, she bought food/furniture etc. Her plan is that she takes all of the things she has bought (furniture etc) and has half the value of the house with DB buying her out. They both work and earn about equal amounts, she has some money of her own, as an investment that DB has never had access to or benefit from. Slight complication is that we lent him £25,000 about 3 yrs ago when his company went belly up-to avoid him becoming bankrupt (she wouldnt let him extend mortgage or access her savings at that point), this was open ended as in repay it when you can but a loan not a handout.
DB is inclined to just let her take what she wants from the house and pay her half market value too, I feel he should get legal advice as this doesnt seem very fair to me really. I feel that she ought at least be liable for half the 25,000 and that should come off the value of her half of the house (not trying to get the money back from db, just reduce the amount he has to remortgage).
Is it worth getting professional advice even with no children or will it just make things more acrimonious?