I have been living with my (now ex) boyfriend for 2 1/2 years. We have a lease together for a house and we live in Texas. We broke up a month ago and now he says I have to move out. He is the primary lease holder but I am on there as a tenant. He says he doesn't need my signature to make me leave. I read the Texas eviction laws but I'm still a little confused. Just because we broke up doesn't mean he has the right to kick me out does it? He has threatened to change the locks on our house so I can't get it. This is all total bullshit right? Anyone with legal knowledge please help me! I can't afford to live on my own yet.
2007-06-23 06:51:33 · 3 answers · asked by ? 3 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
To add a little more info to the question...
I don't necessarily WANT to stay, but I just started a new job and I can't afford a new place yet, it will take me 2-3 months.
And my ex said he talked to the landlord and that she told him he can take my name off the lease. I refused to sign a new agreement until he had the dates changed on lease saying I would still be a tenant until Aug or Sept. He said he didn't need my signature on it anyways. Will he get in trouble if he forged it?
Is he just trying to piss me off and get me to leave? It seems like I would have a legal right to still be here. He brought up the fact that I hadn't been paying rent the past few months (I was in still in school and was only able to work part-time) and that I was being uncivil in not leaving. I hope he doesn't think I ENJOY being here.... He is also trying to tell me I have to move my stuff out of the master bedroom so he can have it, and that the new female roommate he wants to move in can have the other
2007-06-23 09:50:22 · update #1
He is in the military (and still married!) and the new girl he wants to move in is a lesbian AND his sergeant. That can get them in trouble too right? I don't want to be a total ***** about the whole thing and tell on them. I just want to get my life together and leave when I can afford to.
Also, a friend told me it doesn't matter if I have been paying expenses here or not because we never had a written agreement to split all the rent and bills 50/50 or anything. I'm scared because all my family lives in another state and I don't have any where else to live. So if anyone knows any legal info about the situation I would appreciate it.
2007-06-23 09:53:57 · update #2
If your name is on the lease, then he cant kick you out!
Contact the Owner of the Property and see what "they" say about it, if you know whom to contact...
If you "want" to stay, (though, I dont know why you "would" want to, since he is now your "ex", and that much friction is between you now), I dont believe there is nothing he can legally do, since both of your names are on the lease.
Unless "he" wants to assume the full responsibility, and then, you both have to go through the landlord in order to get "let out" of the lease.
Now, my diatribe...
This is why I dont believe that two people should ever sign for anything who arent married, as with out a "marriage contract" there is no committment and if some one wants to pull up stakes, or you get a "mad on" and decide to stop giving the boyfriend sex, (Only reason they usually kick you out, unless they found another "hottie" to take your place), then your 'forced' into an incident where no one is the winner and both become the loser and are "stuck" being together... As in this case!
You both are not going to be happy, and suffer now, and everyone around you are going to pick sides, thus alienating you or your former boyfriend, and the battle lines are drawn... What a misearable existence that is...
I wish you well....
Jesse
2007-06-23 07:03:47 · answer #1 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have an equal right to occupy the house, especially that you are on the lease. Even if you weren't, you have obviously established it as your residence so threre's no way short of formal eviction proceedings through the courts to force you to leave.
The issue of his changing the locks is tricky. He's not your landlord so it's not a landlord lockout. However the landlord does have a say in the changing of the locks and should give you a copy of the key if you covered his or her costs.
2007-06-23 14:12:49 · answer #2 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if he's the landlord and you're the tenant, he can evict you after 2 weeks.
2007-06-23 14:01:22 · answer #3 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋