• Malfeasant@lemmy.world
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          28 days ago

          Yes, but how do you determine that? I’m not trying to be a smartass, but I am going through a divorce, and recently sold the house my wife and I lived in for the past 10 years. I moved out first, then after a couple weeks her lawyer informed mine that the house was vacant, so I shut off the a/c and the ring service to save money until it was ready for sale- then found out she hadn’t actually moved out. I don’t know if her lawyer just made a mistake, or if she lied to him, but either way they tried to claim that I was being “petty”. Then it took her months to move her stuff out. At some point she did move to her mom’s, but I don’t know exactly when, but when I was cleaning out the refrigerator, I found stuff that had expired around the time I moved out, but that wasn’t unusual for her so who tf knows. Point being, it’s not always easy for someone to determine whether a property is lived in or not. Then of course you have the situation where someone goes away for say 3-6 months but intends to come back. Maybe it’s a one-time thing, maybe it’ll be every year, who knows? People will say whatever.