Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania

Re: Real Estated and Poperty Law

Unless there was a written agreement among the people who are supposed to own the property, there are no clear-cut rights to reimbursement. Such an agreement should have stated the way in which those people own the property, how they divide responsibility for maintaining it and paying the mortgage, and how they would deal with one or more owners who want to leave.

If your name is not on the deed, it would be very difficult to show that you have an interest in the property, even if you lived there and paid part of the mortgage. That could always be interpreted as your paying "rent" by contributing to the mortgage.

This response is not legal advice, since I do not have all of the information that would be required, and I do not have a representation agreement with you.

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