do i really have to go back home?

[petitmaman]

Our marriage has been not good for a long time and I am staying with my parents over the easter hols for 'thinking time'. I have now told dh that I want to separate.
The problem is that my stay is coming to an end and I have been told if I don't love in our house I won't have any claim on it. BUT i don't think i can move home. DH wont move out and so we would have to live tgether. we have no spare room or anything. How would this work. At the moment I have hopes of keeping things amicable but I don't think that this would work if we had to live together. Has anyone done this? would i really lose (what is mostly my) house if i wasn't in it? Any suggestions on any level would be much appreciated.

Can you delay going back by a few days while you seek advice from a solicitor and CAB? That way you are not saying you won't go back or don't live there you are just staying on hols for a few more days.

Go to a solicitor. If the house in in joint names then you are entitled to 50% of the equity in it. Either you can sell it and split what you get 50/50. Or he can buy you out at an agreed amount based on the realistic equity in the house, less fees.

My OH's wife left him in the house and he had the choice to sell and split or to buy her out.