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Family turmoil - What's a girl to do?
Situation: Family Turmoil
Location - Florida
Father buys a house for son. Son and girlfriend of 17 years move in. Currently living there for over 7 years and paying mortgage to the father to date. Father and Son also have a business with the same arrangement for the last 13 years.
Father/son fall out: Father decides he wants out and demands payment in full for house and business. Son does not have that kind of money and has never been in control of the finances. Father was handling all the finances, both business and home. Father has kept son at arms length and had him not only work for free for these 13 years but had denied him medical benefits as well. To be clear, father has never paid the son a wadge for working and running the business for all these 13 years.
Girlfriend/boyfriend verbal agreement has the girlfriend paying all household expenses including (but not limited to) utilities, food, non-food household items, appliances, entertainment, etc...
Girlfriend has no written legal binding to the house or business. There is no lease and she has not been included on any of the house or business dealings. Girlfriend and boyfriend plan on maintaining their relationship as per usual.
My questions are as follows; Does the girlfriend have any rights? Is she entitled to anything regarding the home she has lived in and upheld for over 7 years? Can she be evicted without legal notice, court summons or termination notice?
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Fathers name is on the house loan, not fathers and the son's right? Father on it alone means he is the home owner. Your son working for no wages that the state are aware of means that when retirement time comes, he will not be getting much retirement money. He can't claim anything that didn't go thru the IRS, so the same is for working under the table for another company. So that is another thing to be concerned about. He should find a real job.
Basically the the son has been screwed by his own dad. Dad's name is the one of the contract and he has been building up his own good credit rating by using son to pay his mortgage and help run the company on top of it for free so Dads business can look to be a financially stable and profitable business when in reality it may just be barely getting by if he couldnt afford to pay wages and other benefits. No other person off the street would ever have worked for him for no wages. So the son is extremely gullible, may be a little slow as far as business dealings, and not have the sharpest mind, or he just trusted his own father too much and never in 13 years ever stopped to really think about this situation as to whether it was a sound deal for you both or not.
And so I agree with the other advice giver that its time to cut your losses and just leave as there is nothing holding you to that house. He should find a job and based on his income, then find a house or apartment to rent for the same amount or less that he was paying Dad as long as the other expenses remain the same so you can cover them. Theres much to be said about having a house of your own but that house was never yours and you may not be able to own one for a long time but its best to start saving up now by finding a place you can live in for low expense and save up money for your own place or just rent for life. Its up to you but he needs to not deal with Dad or try to do any business dealings with Dad.
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No lease, no rights. Yes, she can be evicted and escorted of the property. The property belongs to dad, and girl and boy are there because dad says so. Once dad revokes verbal consent, girl and boy must leave. On the flip side, if there was no lease at all nobody has to pay anything but dad. So girl and boy can move out scott free without paying a dime. I would say they should both leave business deals and housing deals with dad alone. if he threatens them every time things go wrong, there isnt really good character there. so take it as a loss, and move on. Good Luck!
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You need to speak to a lawyer.
Your rights will be difficult to determine, and you'll probably need to fight for them, since there is no contract or existing agreement that lays them out.
However, you probably can't be evicted without legal notice, at this point you are likely to have at least something like squatters rights and definitely still have basic protection that any tenant has, and you should not leave the home until all legal avenues have been explored.
Get all your receipts togeather for mortgage and utilities, and then get a lawyer.
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