Mother-in-law wants my name removed from the deed of her house after I gave her $90,000 to buy it.

Here's what happened.

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Me and my partner have been together for eight years, married for two of them. Five years ago we bought a home together, a small two bedroom unit,

just to see if we could coexist without killing one another with the intention

of only staying a few years before we got married and then upgrading to something larger.

Three years on, we had enough of a deposit to do just that when my partner's mother came to us

asking for help. She wanted to buy a place but didn't have anything in the way of

savings. She was tired of renting as it was becoming more and more expensive.

We talked about the issue, knowing that if we agreed to help, it meant delaying our own upgrade

by a further three years at minimum.

With some hesitation on our part, we nevertheless did the right thing and helped out his

mother by giving her 90K, the sum total of all of our savings at the time, making it clear

it was just alone, and she ended up buying a place with

the aid of her other son. Recently my partner has been talking to me about

getting my name taken off the documentation to the house, so it's only in her name and two sons on all the paperwork.

I know his mother has been in his ear about it because he only ever brings it up after

a solo visit to her.

For a while I avoided the conversation, but recently my husband has had an actual

conversation with the lawyer to draw paperwork to have my name legally removed. When I found out,

I told my husband we needed to have a serious talk.

And I told him honestly that I wouldn't remove my name from the documentation, because to date

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