My boyfriend and I are a non-married cohabitating couple living in a rented house for more than two years and the renting contract is just in his name. Can the landlord legally dispossess me out of the house when my boyfriend dies?

16 Feb My boyfriend and I are a non-married cohabitating couple living in a rented house for more than two years and the renting contract is just in his name. Can the landlord legally dispossess me out of the house when my boyfriend dies?

No he cannot.  It is important that at the time it happens you notify the landlord about the decease of your boyfriend and about your wish to subrogate in the renting contract in a maximum term of three months after your boyfriend’s death. In such notification you should include a documental proof about your previous cohabitation with the tenant. This is the reason why in case of cohabitating couples it is most advisable to always have a document signed at the notary (Escritura de declaración Pareja de Hecho) concerning such cohabitation, which will suffice for the purpose of such proof.