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How do we split the value of the property?
Hello I'm not sure whether this can be answered on here, but I need to try. I walked out of my marriage (of 43 years at that time) and have purchased a very modest home where I live with my partner. I've reached an age where, due to various health issues, I would manage better living in a Bungalow or even a flat. In the 10…
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D81 Form and State Pension
Hallo all. I suspect this may have already been answered somewhere, so please bare with me. My x-wife and I are tackling the infamous D81 form to achieve a professional pension sharing order, Can somebody please advise: As we both receive state pensions, should they appear anywhere on this form as income etc? I receive a…
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C100 - Parenting Plan, Consent Order....or both???
My partner and I are separating, amicably, and wish to legally formalise a shared custody arrangement using a C100 form. We have prepared our Parenting Plan but something is confusing me. The C100 asks on the first page if we "wish to formalise an agreement (consent order)?" and asks that a draft consent order be attached.…
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My solicitor can get no reply from another solicitor!!
My brother in laws partner died last May 2022 and the home they lived in [which they jointly owned] now needs to be sold, as his attorney he has asked me to appoint a solicitor to deal with this, which I did last August. Since then nothing has happened and our solicitor has written, emailed and phoned and gets nowhere, the…
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School holidays and FT parents
Looking for some insight here. My wife is due to go back to work from 20 hrs pw to 30 hrs pw in March. She'll be working 8-2 each day. We have one DS age 13 (and stepson age 20 but not local) We both get 12 weeks of hols between us so can manage some of the school hols. We've no close family nearby. DS has been left for…
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Working out finances before we we married
Hi, firstly we have no children. We've been married nearly 4 years have a joint mortgage for our home which we bought 10 years ago and only owe £40k on it. My wife has never worked and ive always paid all of the mortgage, bills, etc it we had a mortgage of £100k when we got married, i also paid an additional £25k from an…
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Witness to a power of attorney dies
Hi, i had a financial power of attorney made for my elderly Mum in 2018! My sister and i were attorneys and my lovely next door neighbour agreed to sign it as a witness. My mum went into a carehome a couple of years later with dementia. However my neighbour has recently died. So i wondered do i need to do anything? Do we…
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Penalty Notice for Non Attendance
So I know I was lucky to take my kids away on holiday last year Oct 22. This holiday was originally booked 2 years previous but we all know what happened then. So i've got the notice today, why has it taken weeks? The question I have is that they have fined both parents, we're both at the same address married which we were…
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Adoption leave and shared parental leave
Any advice as both our workplaces are a bit confused, as are we. I'll try and stick to basic facts. - Myself and my partner are adopting soon - We understand we get 50 weeks of shared parental leave - We are planning to take 15 weeks off together initially (which would therefore count as 30 weeks of leave?) - Partner will…
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Nursing home fees query - will shortfall of fees need to re-paid to council? (Mindfield!)
Writing on behalf of a good friend who wants advice, aware
he will need to get expert legal advice ultimately but having had people
(including professionals) voicing completely differing opinions, thought he
could come here first, to see if anyone here could help make situation clearer
first. I will try and keep brief: My…
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Slow Solicitor
Hi, I wonder if anyone here can help? My sister's relationship has broken down and she has moved out of the house that she owns outright with her partner. He is refusing to sell the property and she has signed up with a solicitor to sort it out, but in a whole YEAR the solicitor has sent one letter and has run up a bill of…
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Recovering Car From Ex
Hi, I purchased a car for my ex to use, we split up last month and she went to have some “space” and stopped at my mums, she took the car and I let her take it as she kept giving me the impression we’d sort things out. We can’t and I would like the car back, she’s refusing. I have a part bank payment for the car and proof…
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financial order or agreement
Hi all, So i have recently divorced from my wife, she has remarried. We have two children both under 18 and for the most part the divorce has been amicable. We agreed that we would not sell the family home (which I inherited from my parents and has always been in my name and I have always paid the mortgage which was on it)…
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How do I get happy again/back to self >>parents
Hi, I’m in hospital for third week and finding it so hard. I’ve got excited about discharge and then it hasn’t happened. I’ve been allowed of the ward to go down a floor to the cafe and shops that the hospital has and each time I really don’t want to come back. I live on my own so was/had been fiercely independent. I gave…
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Capital Gains Tax - second property - Divorce
I'm supporting my parents with their divorce and the financial separation is likely to trigger Capital Gains Tax. I'd like to understand more about it. My first question is have I got the right forum or do I need to be somewhere else? Now onto some of the detail, there are two properties. House 1 - purchased in 2000 with a…
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Which school would you pick?
A good almost outstanding primary 5 mins walk from our house. But all the secondary schools in our area are "rough", with below average performance, no sixth forms, limited subject options, minimal extra curricular. Or a 10 minute drive away, an all-through 4-18 school, good rated but excellent results, extra curricular,…
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I have paid/am paying for my Ex's kitchen. Legal rights to it or money back?
I'm not sure if this the right thread but I can't find something more specific!! I left my Ex in January 2022 (my fault). In the previous year, we had decided together to replace the kitchen in the house that she owns, from wren kitchens. It would cost around £12k. I paid the deposit of around £5k using savings, overdraft…
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Experiences of mediation services
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Holiday dispute with ex girlfriend.
Hi guys, my son and his girlfriend split up on New Year’s Day 2023 and had been planning to visit Cuba in August 2023 with her family. My son has so far paid over £790.00 to his girlfriends mother who is the lead person on the booking form. She has flatly refused to pay him back any of the money and as he is not the person…
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Deputyship is insolvent
My.siblling had just been granted deputyship over my mother's affairs. However,.I have just discovered she is registered with The Insolvency Service on as being applied for voluntary insolvency dating back to 2020. Please advise me on the legality of this and how could someone be granted deputyship by the Court in…
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