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house signed over under duress:(
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They made him pay £500 at a solicitor for it to be signed over
That sounds like the solictor's fee.... but not the price at which the property was transferred.
Get the papers for this. Have you looked on the Land Registry to see who the legal owner is? Warning ..... I'm a peri-menopausal axe-wielding maniac
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You need to track back to when and how the deal was done. How were the deeds signed over?After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?0 -
roaminghippy wrote: »hi
I dont know if this is relivant but if he was ill and grieving couldn't he contest it if he has signed it over as he was not in a mental state to enter into a contract type of thing?
just a thought and im sure someone will reply if its possible or not
Rhiannon
It is possible. There's something called 'undue influence', which is probably what happened here. Indeed, there might well be a rebuttable presumption of undue influence. If the old man was independently advised by a solicitor, then that that would help the donees to rebut the allegation of undue influence.
Undue influence is quite sufficient, duress is something much stronger, which almost certainly did not take place. Was the old man covered in bruises?
Really, there is no way to tell what was going on from the few details posted here, and if the old man feels that he was pushed into this then he needs some paid-for legal advice.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Thanks everyone, I will tell my friend to find out which papers were signed.All I know is what i've said above, and that the house has supposedly been signed over to my friends nephew:("You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"
(Kabat-Zinn 2004):D:D:D0 -
Age concern have a lot of experience in this areaMy friend's Mum died in Jan 2007, her Dad was left in the house which he then owned outright.Her Brother put him under a lot of pressure to sign the house over to him, which he did, then the Brother hasn't come up with any money at all, and the house is signed into his sons name, ie the mans Grandson(they have a business together, and everything is in his sons name cos he is so dodgy:mad: )
Subsequently the old man who's 80, has been diagnosed with stomach cancer and has just had a major op to remove 3/4 of his stomach.He is now understandably worried he will never see his money.Is there anything the family can do legally, as it seems he was vulnerable when he signed the house over, as he was grieving and terminally ill:(
http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/how_we_help.asp0
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