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Longtime lurker, first-time poster.
Long story short-ish ...
My partner bought a house in her name...
Me, male 45 bought a Dublin house in 2011 Euro300k and lived there together until mid-2018 when I moved out. She returned to her home country mid-2019 and is selling now, I have just discovered. Estimated selling price Euro500k.
We never married and as a contractor during the recession with bouts of idle-time, we wouldn't have received the mortgage if I had been added to the application. She bought in her own name, and fronted the total of the deposit and most of the furnishings. The idea was that I would repay her my half over time.
I was not on the mortgage either
Over time with further bouts of idleness, the intended amounts were never paid - rather instead, extra large monthly expenses incurred for the family were taken over by me alone. All other bills/expenses to that point were mostly 50/50 despite my financial shortcoming although I did pick up various house expenses including management company expenses and other such usually-legal-owner-characteristic expenses. These other expenses were not insignicficant either and incurred for the children's benefit.
Recession then ended, and property climbed in value. And we became parents.
I am renting now again, and think I could be left without anything especially as she is overseas and is sole legal-owner/mortgage-holder. Suspect foreign country would request children upkeep (and anyway I wouldn't want to be that Dad to have to explain to grown-up sons that I hadn't contributed to sons' upkeep). So between foreign travels in these & future years, rental expenses and kid-maintenance, I don't expect to be cahs-flow rich.
What rights if any, exercisable or not, under Irish law do I have? What is a fair buy-out price, even if not exercisable under law?
Longtime lurker, first-time poster.
Long story short-ish ...
My partner bought a house in her name...
Me, male 45 bought a Dublin house in 2011 Euro300k and lived there together until mid-2018 when I moved out. She returned to her home country mid-2019 and is selling now, I have just discovered. Estimated selling price Euro500k.
We never married and as a contractor during the recession with bouts of idle-time, we wouldn't have received the mortgage if I had been added to the application. She bought in her own name, and fronted the total of the deposit and most of the furnishings. The idea was that I would repay her my half over time.
I was not on the mortgage either
Over time with further bouts of idleness, the intended amounts were never paid - rather instead, extra large monthly expenses incurred for the family were taken over by me alone. All other bills/expenses to that point were mostly 50/50 despite my financial shortcoming although I did pick up various house expenses including management company expenses and other such usually-legal-owner-characteristic expenses. These other expenses were not insignicficant either and incurred for the children's benefit.
Recession then ended, and property climbed in value. And we became parents.
I am renting now again, and think I could be left without anything especially as she is overseas and is sole legal-owner/mortgage-holder. Suspect foreign country would request children upkeep (and anyway I wouldn't want to be that Dad to have to explain to grown-up sons that I hadn't contributed to sons' upkeep). So between foreign travels in these & future years, rental expenses and kid-maintenance, I don't expect to be cahs-flow rich.
What rights if any, exercisable or not, under Irish law do I have? What is a fair buy-out price, even if not exercisable under law?
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