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hcourtney197
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My mother in law inherited land from her grand aunt and was sold about 3 years ago for 1.1m.
The difficulty that she has is that she still hasn’t received any funds from her solicitor in relation to this land.
The solicitor in question is a family ‘friend’ and he has been rung about this issue numerous times over the past 3 years about the funds and he has consistently stated that there was more paperwork that needed to be filled and also inferred that the auctioneer had not transferred the funds over to his account for dispersal.
The auctioneer was contacted and stated that he funds from the sale had been transferred in May 08.
The solicitor more or less stated that he had invested the funds (without knowledge or approval from anyone) and that again. I find this situation unacceptable as my mother in law had not been contacted to come in and it seems that the solicitor has been delaying tactics for a number of years. We queried the interest on the funds and was told that my mother in law wasnt owed anything bar the original amount (less tax). But there was a figure of 100k taken off for expenses, yet we don’t have any paperwork to support this figure.
I feel that my mother in law has been taken advantage of but I need to have some insight in order to help.
1) Should it take as long as 18 months to undertake and complete paperwork and also can the solicitor hold funds like that in his account and derive benefit from it (interest) with does not reverts back to the clients.
2) Can we request the file to view what has occured for the past 18 months.
Thanks
The difficulty that she has is that she still hasn’t received any funds from her solicitor in relation to this land.
The solicitor in question is a family ‘friend’ and he has been rung about this issue numerous times over the past 3 years about the funds and he has consistently stated that there was more paperwork that needed to be filled and also inferred that the auctioneer had not transferred the funds over to his account for dispersal.
The auctioneer was contacted and stated that he funds from the sale had been transferred in May 08.
The solicitor more or less stated that he had invested the funds (without knowledge or approval from anyone) and that again. I find this situation unacceptable as my mother in law had not been contacted to come in and it seems that the solicitor has been delaying tactics for a number of years. We queried the interest on the funds and was told that my mother in law wasnt owed anything bar the original amount (less tax). But there was a figure of 100k taken off for expenses, yet we don’t have any paperwork to support this figure.
I feel that my mother in law has been taken advantage of but I need to have some insight in order to help.
1) Should it take as long as 18 months to undertake and complete paperwork and also can the solicitor hold funds like that in his account and derive benefit from it (interest) with does not reverts back to the clients.
2) Can we request the file to view what has occured for the past 18 months.
Thanks