Can your partner throw you out?

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Does anyone know - if you are unmarried and been living together for 20+ years in a house owned by your partner - if things become acrimonious - and you have a 15 year old - can your partner throw you out??

Thanks there is some really useful info there. Been stuck in this cycle for a long time. As usually happens, when things not going well he gets drunk and tells me I have to leave. The next morning when sober forgets all about it. Constant cycle of panic/stress/upset then all forgotten about. Happened again tonight. Won't do counselling and we can't communicate.

The only thing you can control here is your own actions, not his.
Make arrangements for your own secure accommodation so he cannot threaten you with this again. Either move back into your let house or secure a new rental of your ien

If she doesn’t have a beneficial interest (i.e. can’t show she contributed to the mortgage or to substantial financial improvements), an occupation order can last a maximum of 12 months.

https://england.shelter.org.uk/professional_resources/legal/relationship_breakdown/housing_rights_of_cohabiting_sole_homeowners/occupation_orders_if_one_partner_is_the_sole_owner

Legally he has to provide for the child. He could change the locks and put her clothes on the pavement in bin bags tomorrow and she would have no legal comeback.

If you've been paying towards the mortgage all this time you could have a beneficial interest. Please don't take MN advice as final! Talk to a lawyer, or to CAB.

If you’re asked to leave and are homeless the council will house you, initially in temporary accommodation. Maybe a hostel or b&b. But as you’re not married then you’ve no legal right to be in his property, you’re there as long as he wants you there I’m afraid, and he knows it, that’s why he threatens

Can I ask gently, why didn’t you go the first or second time?

I think all the usual reasons - not wanting to give up, hoping things would change, not wanting to upset my son, security etc etc etc

I think you probably need to seek some proper legal advice. You could claim a beneficial interest in the property. Don't just walk away

I will definitely get advice.

I don’t think they will if she owns property elsewhere, though?

Get a grip of yourself love 😂

She said she wasnt looking for money or equity so i said that was good as she wasnt entitled to any of it

Goodbye 👋

😂I think a few hundred thousand children, if not millions, live with an alcohol dependant parent. They're easy to spot though - When they do lift sharing, they always want to do the early lifts.

As the OP owns another property then, in all likelihood, the local authority would tell her to regain possession so that she can live on it. It makes no odds if it's where she wants to live, it's hers and she should use it so that she doesn't become homeless. Tell me why a local authority should house a home owner and why she should, effectively, have an interest in 2 properties when her partner would then have none? Realistically.?The OP has means of resolving the issue easily. She is far better off than many in this situation.

It's not your house