If you are living with your parents or relatives your rights to remain in their home are limited. However, they still have a duty to give you ‘reasonable’ notice to leave, and if you have been living there for a long time this could be at least one month.

Many parents ask their children to leave because of family arguments or disagreements, often coming from a lack of understanding of each other’s lives and behaviour.

Braintree Council can help direct families to mediation services which can provide an opportunity for issues to be discussed with the help of an independant person.