Can you evict a caree? How?
Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 12:48 pm
I'm starting this thread because it seems to me that there are carers out there who are in a 'cleft stick' when it comes to their caring situation.
They have allowed a caree (typically a parent, but presumably not always?) to come and live with them, but the arrangement has not worked out well.
So, can they 'evict' the caree? If the caree does not wish to leave.
I'm wondering what the actual legal situation is?
I fear that by inviting the caree to live with them, the caree now has acquired some kind of 'squatters rights' if nothing else, or that a tenancy has been created perhaps?
Personally, I think it would be helpful to get clarification on this.
If the owner of the property (the carer) DOES have any right to evict an 'unwanted caree' (!) (because of, say, obnoxious behaviour to the carer!), then how can they legally go about it? Do they need, for example, a court order? And what if the evictee refuses to leave the property? Can they be 'manhandled' out?
What if the caree is disabled? What if they have dementia?
What happens if the carer actually sells the property, but has no wish to take the caree with them!
It all seems an incredibly 'dangerous' legal minefield, to let someone come and live in your property, without any kind of 'formal tenancy' etc. But even if there is one, how one PHYSICALLY achieves their eviction, is quite a different matter!
(I know it's a horrible thing to think about, but there ARE carees here who appear to be SO horrible, and SO exploitative of their families, that they have no 'moral entitlement' to being looked after by them at all, let alone occupy their house!)
They have allowed a caree (typically a parent, but presumably not always?) to come and live with them, but the arrangement has not worked out well.
So, can they 'evict' the caree? If the caree does not wish to leave.
I'm wondering what the actual legal situation is?
I fear that by inviting the caree to live with them, the caree now has acquired some kind of 'squatters rights' if nothing else, or that a tenancy has been created perhaps?
Personally, I think it would be helpful to get clarification on this.
If the owner of the property (the carer) DOES have any right to evict an 'unwanted caree' (!) (because of, say, obnoxious behaviour to the carer!), then how can they legally go about it? Do they need, for example, a court order? And what if the evictee refuses to leave the property? Can they be 'manhandled' out?
What if the caree is disabled? What if they have dementia?
What happens if the carer actually sells the property, but has no wish to take the caree with them!
It all seems an incredibly 'dangerous' legal minefield, to let someone come and live in your property, without any kind of 'formal tenancy' etc. But even if there is one, how one PHYSICALLY achieves their eviction, is quite a different matter!
(I know it's a horrible thing to think about, but there ARE carees here who appear to be SO horrible, and SO exploitative of their families, that they have no 'moral entitlement' to being looked after by them at all, let alone occupy their house!)