hello I have a situation.

I have been in a relationship with a woman for the past 12 months. I met her in a mining town where I was working and making very good $$ as I have a trade as a plumber. I had worked very hard for 3-4 years to land the job. I met this girl 3months after my wife died. she owned a house back in the town that we both used as a home base when away from the mines. her house was falling apart she had a huge fig tree out the front that was causing damage to the structure or the house. also the tree had its roots snap the plumbing pipes to the house. it was causing sewerage to over flow everywhere and her house being on a hill in the suberbs with alot of reserdents close by. not to mention her renters complaning about the disgusting smells. she was crying to me to leave my job and go fix her house otherwise it would have cost her tens of thousands of dollars. I warned her that we would have to make this relationship serious and I dont want ta girl just to use me for my skills and trade and then flick me off. she said that she wouldnt do that to me. and proposed to me. my job was very fast paced and after losing my wife and found another girl that loved me, I quit my job and helped her out.

I directed a digger to dig up all sewer mains to the house, uncovering and ripping up her front yard. then started the major job of re laying her new sewer drain for her house. connecting all fixtures to the house.

then she started to show me her double garage that she had started to build into a granny flat. she had put up a wall inbetween and gib rocked it. she said it needed a shower, toilet, vanity and a kitchin sink on the other wall.

as her feonce I helped her out yet again because i was trying to build something for US as a couple. she brought toilet, vanity, shower and kitchin sink, and i brought all the materals to plumb it in. no price difference. I finished the grannyflat and put my new fridge and washing machine down there and we rented it out for $200 a week. her getting all the $

then she noticed that the front yard had been all dug up and looked messy.... so she sudgested a retaining wall. I drew up a design of a double leveled retaining wall to be built at the front of the property. as her house was on a steep hill this would maxamize her front yard, as it was unusable how it was. so every day after work I would come home and work on the retaining wall, I would work all my spear time as she would sit upstairs and watch tv and shop on her laptop. I would then come up at dark to cook dinner and get abused that the kitchen wasnt clean. i would then clean the kitchin too again too. while she was drinking her wine.

In the end I have broken up with her, and she has tryed to charge me $8000 for rent and dinners/scoopon deals that she brought for us. and a ticket to bali.

what do I do in this situation? do I charge her for work that I have done. can she make me pay her back?

My dad was shocked and said what would your mother think if i gave her a bill for rent? he works in the mines also and flys her up to see him. and bill her for that too? hes telling me not to pay her but i want some legal advise

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