Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Florida

Re: Help, we need to leave!

Retain me to start a partition action to compel a sale with a credit for your expenses. Good luck.

Re: Help, we need to leave!

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If the parties can no longer work together and cannot agree on an equitable division of the property, then one of them should file an action for partition of the property. The court will generally give one or the other the right to buy the other's interest. Failing such, the property will be placed for sale to a third party with the proceeds distributed according to the court order. Your mother can ask to get reimbursed for any inequitable payment of the expenses to maintain the house in your uncle's absence.

Scott R. Jay, Esq.