Ask a solicitor: What's the fair way to split the house after a break-up?

We took out a mortgage together, and the property was placed into both our names as tenants in common in equal shares, but now, we have broken up, and we have decided to go our separate ways, asks this week's reader.

We took out a mortgage together, and the property was placed into both our names as tenants in common in equal shares, but now, we have broken up, and we have decided to go our separate ways, asks this week's reader.

Dear Karen, 

I bought a house with my boyfriend a couple of years ago. We took out a mortgage together, and the property was placed into both our names as tenants in common in equal shares, but now, we have broken up, and we have decided to go our separate ways.