Less than six months ago I purchased a property with my boyfriend. During the process of procuring the home in their name, my boyfriend hit a roadblock, when it was found that there were salary restrictions making it not possible to get a mortgage without a co-borrower. So that is where I came in. We would be moving in together as planned, I'd be paying the mortgage - but the lawyer made it so I would have no stake in the property. I wasn't putting any money down, but without me - the deal would have fallen through. My problem is that I have absolutely no leverage whatsoever if we split. I'm still liable for the mortgage but on a property that is not mine. I was coerced by the lawyer to sign a quit claim*, signing the deed over before the closing even took place. The quit claim was filed away to be sent in a few weeks after the closing, and hours later I had the property signed over to my name by the former owner. On the deed that is filed and viewable online, the book and page numbers are hand-written in. How is it possible to sign over a property that I didn't own? What is my recourse if we split and I'm left holding an expensive bag that I am unable to divest my mortgage stake in? I didn't put the capital down for the down payment, but without me there's no sale, is that really worth $0? *By this point I had already broken the lease at my apartment I had rented for nearly 3 years and would have to scramble to find a new place, first and last/security, et cetera while putting down big money for school, it would have been a choice of one or the other, a poison pill that had my hand forced.