My ex has been living in a house since 2006, that he says to family and friends he owns, however, to officials he doesn't. A couple of weeks before he moved in, his sister purchased the property in her name. Only he and our children (occasionally) lived in the home. His sister has owned another property for several years where she raised her now grown children and still lives there full time. My ex has claimed bankruptcy and I'm opposing it for several reasons . One being for a debt he didn't pay which was co-signed by me and I am now responsible for it, however, back in 2006 a court order, ordered that he is liable and responsible for this debt and shall indemnify and save me harmless (I already paid my portion of the debt in 2006). He stopped making payments in Jan.'08. He did have an opportunity to pay when he jointly sold his deceased mothers' house in Jan. of '07 but didn't. He also jointly owned and flipped another property in Jan.'08 I'm still trying to prove. I'm gathering information to help my case and during this process I went online to check various properties on the land registry, that he may be involved in. The ownership of his house is in his sisters' name and the ownership of his sisters' house states she is the owner, however, now it is listed as "For the Purpose of Maintaining a Building".
My question is does anyone know of any property or government law stating the rules about owning more than one property and living in a house that's listed "For the Purpose of Maintaining a Building".
Any other comments are very much appreciated.
Thanks, from Ontario

It's property owned in his name that matters. Is the property in his name?

Sounds to me like they made a verbal agreement and they are doing the minimum of what they can without having to put his name on the title for now. I don't know what for the purpose of maintaining the building means but it sounds to me like they are claiming it as not being used.
You can own as many buildings as you want there is no law against that.

As long as the property is not in his name nothing you can do about it

No the property isn't in his name. He's been hiding his assets for years because he wants to stick me with the debt as well as avoid paying support. In arrears, thousands of dollars.

Then I don't see you have an argument - if the property is not legally owned by him, it's not his property. He isn't the first nor will he be the last to prepare for bankruptcy years in advance by moving and hiding assets.

It's not fair but it does, unfortunately, "work."

...My question is does anyone know of any property or government law stating the rules about owning more than one property and living in a house that's listed "For the Purpose of Maintaining a Building".
Any other comments are very much appreciated.
Thanks, from Ontario

I would doubt that there is any law prohibiting multiple property ownership, but I am not very familiar with Canadian law on the subject.