Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Virginia

My girlfriend at the time of June or July 2009 bought a house in full. Shortly after in February of 2010 she moved back to her hometown. I do not pay rent on the property but have been living there for the past 2 years that she has been gone with her acknowledgement. Now there is deliquent real estate taxes that occured in her name. What can I do so that I do not lose my only place to live? Or possibly get the house put into my name since I am the only who has lived there since her abandonment of the property? Also, several times throughout the 2 years there were attempts in contacting her with no response what so ever.


Asked on 3/08/12, 11:57 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

You could not on your own simply "get the house put into [your] name"

without the owner (your girlfriend) executing the appropriate

documents required to convey her ownership interest in this property to you (which also very likely would require the approval of the

lender).

However, anyone , including you, should be able to pay up the delinquent

taxes to the city or county to forestall a tax sale of the property and allow you to live there a while longer before eventual foreclosure by the lender or some other intervening event requires you to move.

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Answered on 3/08/12, 12:42 pm


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