Please help! Ahhh..

[chloexo]

Me and my partner have decided to split up and its getting rather messy. We've been together 5 years and we've got in debt together in my name.. however in the next week or so he will be getting a £30,000 pay out for an accident at work.

I'm just wondering if I will be entitled to any of that?

With him moving out, taking the car off me and leaving me with debts!

Does anyone know?

Thank you

 

[housewifey]

Me and my partner have decided to split up and its getting rather messy. We've been together 5 years and we've got in debt together in my name.. however in the next week or so he will be getting a £30,000 pay out for an accident at work.

I'm just wondering if I will be entitled to any of that?

With him moving out, taking the car off me and leaving me with debts!

Does anyone know?

Thank you

Sorry I have no idea if you would be entitled to that- although my guess is probably not :s

I'm curious though, would he really just leave you with all the debt and no way of covering it when he's sitting with a large amount of money? Would he not even pay his half?

Good luck with it

 

[Dinah93]

If the debts are solely in your name he is not obligated to pay towards them, nor are you entitled to any of his payout. If you can prove any debts were solely his benefit (a car purchase for example if he keeps the car) then you could take it to court and they may find him responsible. You would need strong evidence that sum of money x equates to purchase y however, you can't go in with 'these are living expenses for 2 years' the court's attitude is that you benifited from those and there is no evidence to say he was borrowing the money from you to pay you back at a later date. My ex left me with £16k of debt after loosing a string of jobs and running up credit cards in my name I didn't even know he'd taken out, I had to pay back every penny myself - even the credit card where he went to Paris for a week and my employer gave a sworn statement I'd attended work every day that week so couldn't have been abroad - apparently I may have told him to go enjoy himself and because I didn't get it signed, dated and witnessed in writing that this was his debt not mine (well duh, I didn't know about it, it's fraud!) it remained my responsibility.

 

[newbie1992]

My husband unfortunately was in the same scenario with his ex girlfriend. He is just finishing off paying 16k worth of debt that they both run up together.

Unfortunately if he is not your legal husband, you are definitely definitely not entitled to anything. Which in my opinion is right, BUT that doesnt mean he should leave you with debt that he is also responsible for.. unfortunately this is a moral scenario.. hope he does the right thing x