Hello. We would like to know what happens when a man and woman, who are not married, purchase a house together, and they break up, what are the legal ramifications. She has paid in $6,000 initially and he has paid in over $80,000. She makes no payments on the house, does not contribute to home owners insurance, does not pay the grounds fees or the taxes. He broke up with her and she thinks she can live there. She told him to move out. He never moved out, however many nights he did not go back. Then she told him he could move back in and she moved to her mother's. When she moved out she took all her personal affects including many of his personal things. She continued to come over and go through all his things while he was not at home. Now she told him to move out and she was moving back in. He told her no he was not leaving. And he told her she could not stay in the room where he was at. So she moved a bed in the 2nd bedroom. She still does not pay anything. He wants to know what he can do legally. He changed the locks before her moving back in and she screamed so much about it and said it was her house that he let her have a key. She told him she wasn't going to move back, but now she has. He wants to buy her out. He has offered her $40,000. He did go to a lawyer and is seeing him again tomorrow. Can he put a lock on his bedroom door? Does he have to let her live there when she is not paying anything? How much time does he have to give her to make a decision about letting him buy her out before he can put the house on the market? She has done a lot of things including throwing away some of his personal things. Thanks for your help.
