Rights in divorce: who gets the furniture?


Questioner

I moved to the village where my boyfriend lives a year ago, I also have my job here. My boyfriend and I then bought new furniture together with an eye to the future when we would move in together. He (his idea) didn't want to have to drag all my old furniture to my new home, so we left it behind for takeover. This furniture has been in my house all year (as furnishings, not in storage or anything). Now we recently broke up and he wants to take all the furniture and use it in his house. In return, I can have his old furniture, which is not to my taste at all. Can he just do that?

Lawyer

No, you must divide the furniture purchased together fairly or you must receive the equivalent in cash.

Questioner

And what if he paid them all?

Lawyer

Then it depends on the agreements you made together, but in principle it is the case that what comes from each person's assets after the relationship has ended belongs to that person again. The furniture was bought for living together and can be reclaimed unless you have paid something from your own assets that has the same equivalent value (holidays, etc. or you have always paid fixed costs, taxes, etc.)

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