What can we do legally if a non-owner of property has overstepped their bounds?
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What can we do legally if a non-owner of property has overstepped their bounds?
My wife and her son bought a house together and they are the only ones on the title/mortgage. While we were away for awhile her son’s wife decided to take all our clothes out of our bedroom and move her son into the house without saying anything to us or asking for our permission. She doesn’t contribute to the mortgage or pay rent. Is there anything that my wife can do legally to her son’s wife? It seems like she broke the law with going into somewhere that wasn’t hers, isn’t her property and removingit from somewhere that isn’t her’s to begin with. What can we do?
Asked on December 21, 2011 under Real Estate Law, Pennsylvania
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
The problem that you have first hand is a family issue that needs to be resolved concerning the daughter-in-law. The law is that if the son is an owner on the property that you are writing about, he is entitled to have possession of the property as well as the co-owner, your wife.
What I do not understand is why is the son being moved into the home that you presumably occupy with your wife? Has the daughter-in-law kicked him out of the home he presumably shares with her?
The issue is whether or not the son-in-law allowed his wife access to the home he has an interest in. If so, what the daughter-in-law did was not illegal or in violation of the law. Foolish yes.
I suggest that a family meeting be had by all to try and resolve the situation.
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