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Can someone explain what will happen about housing

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15 Nov 07 #6714 by townie
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My s2bx moved out 7 weeks ago. We have a mortgage together.At the moment he is paying the mortgage on his own.I am on benefits and haven't worked since we moved here 10 years ago due to ill health.Prior to that we had a flat and I was given £18,000 to put down to buy the flat which we took with us when we bought where we are now.How much of the house will be mine after divorce does anyone know? How can I get my housing costs paid by income support?He is wanting me to sell and is willing to give me 60/40 would this be right?I am thinkinga new start would be good, but would need more than this to buy somewhere outright.As my health is bad I cannot work so wouldn't get a mortgage.the stress of the whole thing is making my health worse which doesn't help.

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15 Nov 07 #6731 by TMax
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From my own experiance the answer is you cant :-(they will pay interest only after 40 weeks, of course untill this time the people who gave you the mortgage have taken you to court anyway and from what happend to me are not interested in why you cant pay it just that you owe it, you then go back to the idiots who gve you the loan in the fitst place see if they will play ball they wont and they reposes, luckily I had a very small windfall from the magic balls that allowed me to pay what I owed in debt to the mortgage and vowed that they will never do that to me again wrote them a very ugly letter and what response did I get heheh they refunded me part of the payments due to an error on thier side but wouild give me the court costs back, so if your with that ******* group of halifax called Birmingham Midshires forget sympathy.

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