I am a Joint Tenant and the other tenant wants to leave. Am I entitled to stay ?

If you are a joint tenant and the other tenant wants to leave this could effect your right to stay.

This is because if the other joint tenant serves a "notice to quit", telling the landlord they want to leave and the notice is in the correct form, it will break the joint tenancy. If you were granted a joint tenancy this will mean you do not have separate tenancy agreements only one agreement.

Your landlord would be entitled to say that as they granted a joint tenancy, if it has been broken it no longer exists. Your landlord would be entitled to ask you to leave and to get a court order if you did not leave.

However, in some cases your council landlord might agree to offer you a tenancy on your own in the same property or a different property.

I have not stayed in my property for a while and my landlord is now threatening to throw me out. What can I do ?

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