jmw, to keep it short as i am sure youve followed some of my thread. if anyone at all would have told me any of this was going to happen i wouldn't believe them, no-one i know can believe it and it is 3 long years now. because we only co-habited and never got on with getting married,(something else he denied although he asked me on several occasions) the property remained in his sole name, and so did the mortgage, because I am one of the rare people that dont spend others money and take others property I didn't have my name put on the mortgage etc as I wasn't working as I said because ex had asked me to be a sahm, then when he left and I have to say it was on the spur of the moment decision, nobody was more shocked than myself he stated that we could continue to live in the house and he would help with the bills etc and continue to pay mortgage, well things turned when hed been left a couple of months and was obviously with ow then, he stopped helping with the bills and tried forcing son at every occasion to spend time with skank, son wasn't having any, he took son away for the weekend march last year, and son as told me it was a weekend where all dad went on about was the fact that he wanted to see more of him but he would have to spend time with the now new wife, because son didn't agree to their little plan, dad hasn't contacted son at all in 14 months, and because son wasn't playing ball and I wasn't forcing him to, and I refused to play the middle man, ex phoned and said he was sending estate agents round to value the place, I think that was done to scare us, the next step was to send a notice to end our time in the place and telling us we owed him a huge amount of rent, and then the finale came when he sent notice of 28 days to get out for trespassing, he took me to court and it was all going through that he was going to evict his only child on to the streets and make him homeless when as a stroke of luck and much hard work with the homeless I managed to get a house with the local authorities, my lawyer was fighting him on the childrens grounds to stay in the house until son was 18, and says that the judge probably would have granted us to stay, but who knows it could have gone the other way and ex was pushing for it to happen.