Thanks for your advice, Iluvme. I'm sorry that that happened to you.
Fortunately I guess, I handle all of the finances for us, both personally and in our business. (How wonderful it is to see his personal credit card charges that I know he's taking her out to dinner...)
I'll see how the dust settles with this over the next few weeks or so. I honestly think we would handle any sort of separation of our business fairly and respectfully but, you're absolutely right, anything can happen. For me, if I were to consult with an attorney this soon, I think I would throw up... I'm not saying it's not the right thing to do; it's just too hard this soon. I'm not ready to do that quite yet. If I feel like things are starting to take a downhill slide in regard to our business, I will do that if needed.
Regarding the refinancing, I have control of the houses as far as the ownership of them, and the refinances would be in just my name. So hopefully no issues there. It is partly because of the entanglement with ownership and loans that I felt like it would be best just to sell everything and each take half if it comes to that. We have a lot of great properties with a lot of potential that would be great to hold onto, but for reasons I've already stated, I just don't feel like I want to keep them with him. It just hurts too much. We bought them together in efforts to work towards OUR dreams and goals. I do not want to keep working on them to have him shatter the dreams that I still want and share the successed with someone else instead... I just don't think I can do that.
Anyway, thanks for the advice. I do really appreciate it. I will keep my eye on things and will take the precaution if it seems necessary.
