You Gotta Fight For Your Rights
My mom’s friend was a real estate agent and lived with her significant other for six years. They had put money into a house together and were fixing it up. My mom’s friend developed brain cancer, and the SO decided she wanted out of the house they had built and wanted it sold immediately. My mom’s friend was dealing with the payments for her treatment but did not want to sell.
The SO said that because she owned a larger percentage of the property, she had every right to sell. Doing so would have kicked my mom’s friend out on the street after she left the hospital. An arbitrator had to be brought in—and that’s when things got cruel. The SO tried to claim that they were not, in fact, a couple and just business partners. It was crushing for my mom’s friend because she really loved that woman. Her cancer metastasized and moved to her lungs. Things were looking pretty grim, but she somehow survived and continued fighting for the rights to the house.