Couple, one sole legal owner and the other with no beneficial interest etc… reading shelters website it states this –
If the tenant/licensee wants the partner to leave, all that is legally required is ‘reasonable notice’. Once the notice expires, the non-tenant/non-licensee cohabitant becomes a trespasser.
Is this correct? can trespasser procedure be used? if not (or its risky) what is the best way to evict a cohabitee with no beneficial interest?
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We have no reason to doubt this although it’s a bit out of our field (as we deal with landlord and tenant).
Trespasser procedure won’t be suitable though because even if they are technically a trespasser, that procedure can’t be used where the occupier was lawfully allowed to enter by someone with a right to possession.
Therefore, if a court order is being obtained, it would be the normal standard route.