One piece of advice to give him would be anything that they have brought for the house together (furniture, whitegoods etc) that has been financed, make sure that whoever keeps which things changes over the names so that the one who DOESN"T have the item doesn't get stuck paying for it. My Brother got stung bigtime when his fiancee walked out a few years ago as too much was in his name, he trusted her to pay for it (thinking with his pecker at the time still ) and he has only just finished paying it all off nearly 6 years later.