Hi there. When you separated from or divorced your ex husband you probably would have needed to work out how to divide your shared property.

If you and your ex husband were able to agree on how to divide the property, you may have simply reached an informal agreement or you may have formalised the agreement by applying for consent orders from a court. If you were not able to reach an agreement with your ex husband, then you may have applied to court for financial orders relating to your shared property. Regardless of how you divided the property, those arrangements are generally considered final and you and your ex husband are unlikely to have any future claim to each other’s property.

Any property owned by your new partner, or any property that is shared or co-owned between you and your new partner, relates only to your new relationship or living arrangement. Your ex husband is very unlikely to have any legal rights to any shared property you have with your new partner or any property your partner personally owns. The law does not recognise any relationship between your ex husband and your new partner, making it difficult for him to exercise any legal rights in relation to your new partner’s property.