i hear you...same thing in my sitch. it is maddening, but hopefully he will approach the D settlement with the same carelessness and you will not have too many issues keeping the house.
how about packing up the dust bunnies and sending them off w/ H to his new place??
Me(f): 51 W: 41 DP:8 M:3 T:10 "W not happy" 7/11 D final: 8/13