Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Virginia
Location: Virginia
Situation: I own the title to my land and deed to my home and I built my mother-in-law an addition serval years ago (she paid for her addition). I changed jobs and put the house on the market. Because of the depreciated market, i and my mother-in-law won't get our original capital investment out of the sale, we will actually lose money.
Qustions: 1. What rights does my mother-in-law have to stop the sell of the house? 2. Can she take me to court and sue to get the full amount of her original capital investment. She feels entitled to all the money she put into the house and expects me to take the hit and lose my own money which I also contributed towards improvemetns on the house. Is this right? Can she do this?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Your mother in law has no right at all (in my opinion) to stop the sale of your house if she's not a co--owner of the property, i.e., listed as such on the deed.
However, if you had a written agreement with her to reimburse her under
the circumstances as described (or something similar), then she could, of course, sue you for breach of such agreement if you failed to reimburse
her for her alleged losses in the matter. (In order not to violate the Virginia statute of frauds, in my view this agreement would have to be written and not merely oral.)
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