Can I compel my husband legally to put my name on an investment property?

[TomEdison]

My husband got an inheritance and is putting all of it into buying a modest investment property.
I want my name to be included on that property as husband doesn't work and I pay entirety of our hefty mortgage and every single other family expense, hence I have no savings whatsoever.

He refuses to put my name on it. Is there any way I can compel him legally to do so?

Legally, you don't have any right to compel your husband to spend his inheritance on an asset of which you will own a half-share. It's his inheritance, not yours.
[Aside:

Aren't you entitled to 50% of it regardless by dint of being married to this "man"

Answer: no.]

It comes down to whether you can get him to agree that that is the way he should use his inheritance. And it seems to me that you're in a relatively strong position to try to bargain for his agreement.

Others in the thread have pointed out that, from a financial good sense point of view, using the inheritance to reduce the mortgage is the optimal way of investing it. I suggest that, if he can't be brought to see that that is financially sensible, you could add that, now that he has a large sum of money available to him, you see no reason why you should continue to bear the sole burden of paying the mortgage on the family home (which, I assume, is in joint names).

 

[Blackrock1]

I know in my relationship there's no "my money" and "your money", there's just "our money" and for clarity I earn around 4 times as much as my partner.

life is so much more straightforward when couples work this way.

 

[misemoi]

life is so much more straightforward when couples work this way.

I have no idea how a couple could otherwise operate! Must be an absolute nightmare.

 

[Salvadore]

Honey if it were me I'd be looking at a good divorce lawyer, this chap is a waste of

A) skin

B) your time

You can do better believe me.

You go girl!!

Does anyone else remember Dr Mary from an episode of Frasier?

 

[jim]

@Persia You should have included:

'You gota kick his no good, sorry ass, to the kerrrrrb gurl, he aint nuthin but a waste.of.space'

That'd have been good

 

[Sarah Ryan]

@misemoi I keep my finances relatively separate to my husbands, we have a joint account that the bills and mortgage come from, we make a deposit of the same amount each month.

The rest of our wages stay in our own bank accounts. He has 3 children from his previous marriage that he maintains, we have none together and I have none either myself. We are taxed as separate people so I do not impact on a tax credit he receives for one of them.

I do think though if you have kids together you 100% need to work with an 'US' mentality and have all the finances together for sure.