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she paid half the mortgage and subsqently went as joint applicant on a remortgage of the same property.
I think it is likely she would have a limited claim- certainly for the length of time she was a mortgagee. Your friend would be better off to do the maths and offer her fair compensation than to add legal costs to it.
BTW he sounds charming and I'm sure he won't be single for long.
Does she not want to get her name off the mortgage anyway? Sounds like it's a bit messy.
I'm speaking as someone who's been in a very similar situation to this guy's girlfriend. Built a house with boyfriend, had joint mortgage but unknown to me I wasn't on deeds. So when we split (after 5 years together, 2 years of a mortgage) our separate solicitors advised us that it would be in both our interests to come to an agreement between ourselves. So what we did was take the:
current value of house
minus value of site (given to him by his family)
minus outstanding mortgage
divided by 2.
So that's what he gave me. Some people were of the opinion that I should have got less as I was in effect getting back everything I paid and more. Some people thought it was unfair to me as I lost FTB status and he has house. I was happy though!
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