Holiday with friends who have had a marriage break up

easy

OP, your inlaws should now leave it to the other couple to decide which of them goes on the holiday. If the wife steps back, and allows husband to go with his new woman, then your inlaws can choose not to have anything to do with them (dining arrangements can usually be changed quite easily when aboard) if that is what they want.

Of course the husband can't get an injunction to prevent 3 adults going on a holiday, and any solicitor he asks will tell him that - and will hopefully give him a stern talking to about facetious use of legal processes.

kinger251285

Hi Guys

Thanks for all your posts.

The ex husbands new gf is a solicitor/lawyer or something along those lines so is threatening court action each time things do not go his way.

He intially rang the travel company to change the names which were successful a few months back. This was either the ex husband fraudlantly using the inlaws name and password or a massive mess up by the travel company.

The travel company then realised this after being contacted by the ex wifes solicitors as she had been removed from the booking which she had part paid for. About a week ago the booking had been reverted back to the original booking due to the ex husband not paying the name change fee. Which i think was in part a cop out or escape route for the holiday company.

As far as im aware he cannot put blame on anyone as no one is stopping him from still going if he so wishes, the booking is still as it was originally booked.

My in laws were just worried by what were more than likely empty threats.

They are not worried who goes and who doesnt are obviously just not happy at getting treats from this guy, empty or not.

Obviosuly i was hoping to gain a little more info to reassure them there would be nothing he can do.

Its just a shame some people have to get nasty.

In hindsight it would have been easier to get everyone to sit down and sort an agreement a month ago however none of what happened was invisiged and the ex husband is being totally un-reasonable and un-amicable not just about the holiday.

I think its a massivecase where he has been caught out and is now trying to blame everyone else for his mistake and threatening where he can to try and get his own way.

The in laws have even tried changing the booking to seperate themselves from the mess however the travel company have been totally un-helpful with this saying it would have to be a complete new booking.

Thanks for all the replys too btw.

aileth

I literally can't see how she could get an injunction. Surely the booking is a contract and the original contract would be your inlaws, husband and ex-wife, so how could they injunct the valid original contract in favour of one created under false pretenses? Sounds like someone is throwing the teddy out of the pram.

New gf must be some hotshot legal eagle if she thinks a judge is going to allow that.

neverdespairgirl

Voyager2002 wrote: »

It seems clear that the divorcing couple would not enjoy going on holiday together, and would probably ruin it for everyone else. The sensible solution would have been to change the names to bring along a new partner, while compensating the left-out old partner in some suitable way. The ex-husband obviously should have discussed this with the 'lead passenger' and it is surprising that he was able to go make the change without doing so.

Anyway, by this stage things are clearly so heated that the holiday is unlikely to be enjoyed by anyone. No: I cannot imagine that the ex-husband can obtain an injunction nor do anything using the law, but agreeing to his request would have been the sensible thing to do.

Sounds a total nightmare for the OP's in-laws. They presumably booked a holiday with the couple as they wanted to go with the couple, not half of it and a new squeeze, which looks massively like taking sides, and isn't an old friend whose company the in-laws chose.

neverdespairgirl

aileth wrote: »

New gf must be some hotshot legal eagle if she thinks a judge is going to allow that.

In my experience, lawyers don't tend to rush to litgation themsevles, because they know all about the pitfalls, stress, etc!

aileth

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

In my experience, lawyers don't tend to rush to litgation themsevles, because they know all about the pitfalls, stress, etc!

I can't imagine husband paying her a brief fee either! :rotfl:

prowla

From the ex-hubby's perspective, he has presumably paid for half of the holiday.

kinger251285

prowla wrote: »

From the ex-hubby's perspective, he has presumably paid for half of the holiday.

The inlaws fully understnad that but also on the same note there are better ways of going about sorting this matter than threateng and fradulantly trying to change the booking.

BitterAndTwisted

I wouldn't rise to the bait of implied threats as there is no substance to them. This couple are unspeakably nasty to try to involve detached and innocent parties in all this. I'd be quite glad if neither of them was able to go.

prowla

kinger251285 wrote: »

The inlaws fully understnad that but also on the same note there are better ways of going about sorting this matter than threateng and fradulantly trying to change the booking.

Maybe he was embarrassed to ask them, and then things got out of hand.