Thankyou Atalose, I've been advised by the Domestic Violence officer that it is just a case of asking him to leave and if he resists involve the police. He will then be classed as a trespasser. No physical abuse but plenty of verbal and threatening behaviour. I am in the UK so the Law may be different here than where you are. I have tried reasoning with him and making suggestions in the past that he should find a flat to rent and that him living under the same roof as me and my children is becoming very detrimental to everyone, but he has become very territorial, classing it as his home, (understandably so). Legally it isn't his home but I know where he is coming from. It is his nest, where he hides away drinking, in relative comfort. I hate the expression, "it's for your own good, " but as Bekindalways alluded being in the home means he does not face any direct consequences of his drinking.