Hi,
My son bought a house and a small piece of land 10 years ago off a family friend. We had the 1 solicitor to look after the sale. As a gesture of good will, the friend agreed to pay all the legal fees. During the 10 years both my son and I have have called to the solicitor on quite a few occasions to get the deeds off the solicitor. She always had some excuse, they were with the land registery and she would contact us as soon as they came back.
Last year, my son sold the house to my daughter, so obiviously he needed the deeds to proceed with the sale, called to the solr again to get the deeds, anyway to cut a long story short, the documentation had been sitting at the bottom of her inbox for the last 10 years, she then started to do the work that she should have done 10 years ago, started sending my son bills for this and that, when i confronted her told her that all the legal fees had been paid by the family friend, she backed off, saying thats grand, he doesn't owe any money.
When we finally got the deeds off her, we brought them to my daughters solicitor, he said that they were in a total mess, the house had been transfered but the land was still in the family friends name. So the whole thing had to be re done. My son has just gotten a bill for €3,000 from my daughters solr. for work that the original solr should have done and |presume got paid for. Obiviously, my daughters solr has to get paid, what im wondering is why should my son pay for for the incompitence of the original slor? Legally, has he any come back? The family friend is now elderly and i dont want to be bothering him with this. Any advice, would be greatly appreciated.
My son bought a house and a small piece of land 10 years ago off a family friend. We had the 1 solicitor to look after the sale. As a gesture of good will, the friend agreed to pay all the legal fees. During the 10 years both my son and I have have called to the solicitor on quite a few occasions to get the deeds off the solicitor. She always had some excuse, they were with the land registery and she would contact us as soon as they came back.
Last year, my son sold the house to my daughter, so obiviously he needed the deeds to proceed with the sale, called to the solr again to get the deeds, anyway to cut a long story short, the documentation had been sitting at the bottom of her inbox for the last 10 years, she then started to do the work that she should have done 10 years ago, started sending my son bills for this and that, when i confronted her told her that all the legal fees had been paid by the family friend, she backed off, saying thats grand, he doesn't owe any money.
When we finally got the deeds off her, we brought them to my daughters solicitor, he said that they were in a total mess, the house had been transfered but the land was still in the family friends name. So the whole thing had to be re done. My son has just gotten a bill for €3,000 from my daughters solr. for work that the original solr should have done and |presume got paid for. Obiviously, my daughters solr has to get paid, what im wondering is why should my son pay for for the incompitence of the original slor? Legally, has he any come back? The family friend is now elderly and i dont want to be bothering him with this. Any advice, would be greatly appreciated.