Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Massachusetts
I have been in a 14 year live in relationship with my girlfriend. The relationship is dissolving and she has demanded that I leave the house. There is no history of abuse or violence. I am the sole provider for the family and has paid the rent every month we have been together. My name and my name only is on the lease. Does she have the legal right to make me leave?
If I do decide to leave and she stays do I have the right to ask my landlord for my security deposit back?
2 Answers from Attorneys
You do not say who is the father of the children, etc. Without commenting on your need to provide child support for your biological or adopted children, if you are the lessee, then she will need to find a new apartment unless the Landlord is willing to release you from the lease and give her a new lease.
If you vacate without getting released from the lease you are not entitled to your security deposit back until the lease is over.
You should retain an attorney as there are many issues that need to be addressed beyond the security deposit which need not be returned until the lease ends or you get a written release from your landlord, who would then have to enter into a new lease with your girlfriend if she intends to continue residing there.
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