Housing rights of cohabiting joint homeowners
Rights to occupy the home in the short or long term, to prevent sale and to pay mortgage after breakup between joint owners.
- Relationship breakdown law for joint owning cohabiting couples- Legislation covering relationship breakdown issues of joint owning cohabiting couples combines family and property law. 
- Cohabiting couples joint ownership- Two or more people can be joint owners of the property, beneficial joint tenants or tenants in common. 
- Establishing joint legal owner interest for cohabiting couples- Rights of cohabiting joint owners to occupy their home and the ways to establish each joint owner's interest in the property. 
- Occupation orders for joint owning cohabiting couples- Resolving occupation disputes by applying to courts for an occupation order to enforce, declare or restrict rights to occupy the home. 
- Preventing a joint owner selling or disposing of a home- A joint owner may be able to prevent sale of the home by the other joint owner or challenge the transaction. 
- Long term options for joint owning cohabiting couples- Ways in which decisions can be made as to selling the property or which one of the joint owners stays in the home in the long term. 
- Financial issues for cohabiting joint owners- Rules on mortgage payments and loans on the property for cohabiting joint owners on the breakdown of a relationship. 
