Evidencing source of funds - historic gifts

user1977

An affidavit might be better than nothing at all, but obviously if you were involved in money laundering it's a pretty easy thing for you to sign...

Are they really asking you to go back 10+ years? As others have said, the money sitting in somebody's account for long enough ought to be persuasive that it is genuinely their money, and not some incredibly long-winded criminal conspiracy.

eddddy

crumblebucket said:

A few years’ bank statements only show a portion of the funds being deposited & although I consider I am fairly organised, the paper trail of more than 10 years (during which time many accounts have been closed) is a bit beyond me. 

I'd be very surprised if a solicitor wanted anything like 10 years of history.

crumblebucket said:

 I think we will have to go back to his solicitor/mortgage provider & try to pin them down as to what exactly is acceptable to them.  

In my experience, I'm not sure how far you'd get with that. But you can try.

It's a bit like saying to a judge "What evidence is acceptable to you to prove that I didn't rob that bank?" There won't be a definitive list of information that you need to provide. The answer is likely to be something like "sufficient evidence to convince me".

Maybe one approach is to gather together what information you can, and send that off to the solicitor - and wait to see if that's enough for the solicitor, or whether they ask for more.