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Your Home When Relationships Breakdown
Your housing rights when your relationship ends will depend on the answers to various questions. This includes:
- Have you been in a heterosexual or lesbian/gay relationship?
- Have you been married to the person you are leaving?
- Are you taking legal proceedings, for example, for divorce?
- Are you an owner occupier or tenant – are you a joint owner or tenant?
- Are there children – and whose are they?
Before you decide to leave your home when your relationship ends you may want to think about whether it should be you leaving. See Relationship Breakdown - Your Right to Remain in your home If you find you do need to leave your home then there are various rehousing options you can consider:
- Emergency Accommodation. If you need to leave immediately – perhaps because you are scared for your own safety – there is Hostel Accomodation and emergency refuges you can contact. You can also contact organisations such as the Samaritans Tel: 2767277 or Sheffield Women's Aid Tel: 2426887 who will provide you with immediate advice. You can also apply to the Housing Solutions Service if you are fleeing domestic violence.
- Longer Term Accommodation. There are various ways that you can be rehoused – follow this link on Looking for a Home or needing to move You will find that many Housing Associations, and the Council – if you are a Council tenant – can give you priority on their waiting lists of you have been experiencing domestic violence.
Housing issues are often only just one part of ending a relationship. Listed below are a number of other contacts that you may find useful:
- Domestic violence – For general advice see Adviceguide
- Children – For general advice about children at the end of your relationship see Adviceguide For leaflets you can download on Child Contact Orders, Residency Orders and Parental Responsibility see Rights of Women website
- Money – For general advice on financial arrangements at the end of a relationship, see Adviceguide
- Ending a relationship – For general information on a range of issues about ending a relationship see Adviceguide
There are a lot of organisations who can provide general information on relationship breakdown and domestic violence. These include:
- Samaritans or Tel: 2767277
- Sheffield Women’s Aid or Tel: 2426887
For individual advice and representation you can contact solicitors and advice centres or download the document below for a list of those specialising in housing issues in Sheffield.
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Solicitors and Advice Agencies in the Sheffield area that provide
advice and representation on housing issues
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