Re: remove husband from lease - Landlord Forum thread 325833

Re: remove husband from lease by Bill on October 17, 2014 @14:37

Tenants make this kind of request quite often. Your position should be that you are not a marriage counselor or their mother. Working out their marriage problems is strictly their problem...not yours.

You can not simply erase the husband's name from the lease nor do you want to. He needs to remain financially responsible for the lease until it expires.

Another thing, explain to your tenant that removing the husband from the lease does not guarantee that he will actually leave. Two weeks after you remove him they will decide they are still so madly in love and he will be back in the house (or he never leaves) but not on the lease. The tenant can bring him back anytime because "he is family." Affairs of the heart are so complicated.

As long as they are married, both you and the wife are stuck with this guy. Again, you are not their case worker or their mother. It is not your problem. Just tell your tenant that you can not legally remove him as long as they are married and that is the truth. If the wife wants the husband out of the house and out of her live she will need to divorce and move away because even a divorce will not guarantee the husband will not be back.

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