I'm preparing to leave an abusive relationship and take my primary school age child with me. I can afford to cover rent and bills on a new house, but not make any payments towards the mortgage on our current home at the same time.
Husband is out of work, so at the moment I pay all the bills (whilst working full time and doing everything else...), but is looking. I suspect when I leave he won't bother to get a job as he will expect me to carry on paying for everything, which I won't do. I'm not expecting for him to provide any financial support towards raising our child.
Has anyone been in a similar position? My current view is that even if our current home ended up being repossessed it would be better than living like this, it has plenty of equity to cover the outstanding mortgage so I'm not worried about that. My main concern is creating a new safe and peaceful home for my daughter, but I wondered what hurdles I can expect when walking out of a property? He won't leave, and as we are joint owners I can't make him. The abusive is emotional rather than physical and so unlikely to secure an occupation order.