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Worried for the future what would you do?
Hi, Although this is way off into the future my husband spoke to me last night about our eldest child who has ASD and learning difficulties. My husband also has learning difficulties and was taken advantage of as a teen. We are concerned about how to keep him safe in a digital world. My husband is keen to not allow any…
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Child trust fund
Sorry if I've posted in the wrong group!My eldest turned 18, and it just occurred to me that I forgot all about that child trust fund the government was piloting back in the early 2000s. Has anyone's child managed to get hold of their money after all these years?
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Caring for mum in her own home
Hello thank you for any advice and feedback received in advance. My husband and I live with my mother who owns her own home to care for her due to Alzheimer's and chronic depression. I have two siblings who will in the future be entitled to a portion of the house when mum passes. No qualms with this. We would like advice…
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Financial settlement
Myself and my husband seperated 10 months ago and I’ve since moved out of the family home. we have a joint mortgage and around £27-30k equity. We’ve agreed a settlement which will be paid by a family member as the husband wants to remain in the house and I’m happy with that. We’ve both got decent pensions and have agreed…
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D81 form assets already split
Hello Me and my ex are currently starting the divorce proceedings. It's an amicable split and we have been separated two years now. The only asset we had was the family home which I bought her out of 18 months ago. What do.i fill out in on the D81 as the house has obviously risen in price since the transfer of equity all…
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Solicitor rate for registering PoA
I'm sadly in the position where I need to register my Mum's PoA. Her solicitor is quoting £220 per hour. Does this seem a reasonable hourly rate? This is in the North of England. ThanksGwen
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Court or continue with mediation?
When do you draw the line under mediation and move to court. Ex wife is refusing to sell the house and proposing a 60/40 split and pay me the balance in 3 years when our child turns 18. In order to do so she has to get a mortgage and in addition get an interest of charge to me against the property for when balance is due.…
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Enforcing a court order - application notice D11
Does anyone have any experience of applying to the courts to enforce a court order? More specifically, to ask the court to enforce directions made within a Financial Settlements case? My ex has not co operated with any court orders and has ignored all attempts at sorting out our finances and without necessary information I…
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Court of protection
1 REPLY22 VIEWS MaebyForumite2 POSTS I am interested to hear people's experiences with the Court of Protection, especially if you have had dealings with them in the past year or so. I was appointed a financial deputy for my father in 2021. It was a fairly drawn out process but I received a court order confirming my…
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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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