Comments on: Divorce solicitors: why clients seek second opinions http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/2008/10/03/divorce-solicitors-why-clients-seek-second-opinions/ Where Family Law Meets Family Life Thu, 17 May 2012 17:28:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/2008/10/03/divorce-solicitors-why-clients-seek-second-opinions/#comment-179 Anonymous Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:49:03 +0000 http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/?p=313#comment-179 I feel you have just written about my solicitor! Looking back I can see he has done exactly what is said here, he has waited far too patiently for information that has not been forthcoming (or has arrived months and months later) while I have supplied all that I can and have been left in a position of...well, where I am now. Nowhere land. My ex's solicitor is threatening 'ancillary relief hearing' with every letter, but wont actually DO it (I wish they would!) My solicitor (a different person in the same firm, I have no idea what happened to my nice but useless solicitor) has told me it will cost me £10,000 to go down the ancillary hearing road, and that it isn't worth it. I was originally told it would cost about £1,800 to get divorced, so fat it's cost £3,000. I feel like I am being expected to walk out of a 19 year relationship with nothing. My ex (sometimes) pays maintenance through the CSA to the tune of £1.54 per day for each of our five children. He has two businesses (plumbing and heating which is declared and a LTD company, and a massage parlour that is not). We have a house worth £320,000 but with a massive mortgage that we are in arrears of, it is jointly owned and while on the market, the repossession proceedings will start on Wednesday (the 1st of April). He offered me a settlement of me handing the house over to him and he would start paying the £2,100 a month mortgage again (unless it is repossessed and there is a debt to pay, in which the house will still be jointly mine), no lump sum, no maintenance for me, no claim to his businesses or pensions, but with him generously paying the CSA presrcibed maintenance formula. I need to find someone who can actually help my children and I! All I wanted was financial support for our children! Is that too greedy? I feel you have just written about my solicitor! Looking back I can see he has done exactly what is said here, he has waited far too patiently for information that has not been forthcoming (or has arrived months and months later) while I have supplied all that I can and have been left in a position of…well, where I am now. Nowhere land.

My ex’s solicitor is threatening ‘ancillary relief hearing’ with every letter, but wont actually DO it (I wish they would!) My solicitor (a different person in the same firm, I have no idea what happened to my nice but useless solicitor) has told me it will cost me £10,000 to go down the ancillary hearing road, and that it isn’t worth it. I was originally told it would cost about £1,800 to get divorced, so fat it’s cost £3,000. I feel like I am being expected to walk out of a 19 year relationship with nothing.

My ex (sometimes) pays maintenance through the CSA to the tune of £1.54 per day for each of our five children. He has two businesses (plumbing and heating which is declared and a LTD company, and a massage parlour that is not). We have a house worth £320,000 but with a massive mortgage that we are in arrears of, it is jointly owned and while on the market, the repossession proceedings will start on Wednesday (the 1st of April). He offered me a settlement of me handing the house over to him and he would start paying the £2,100 a month mortgage again (unless it is repossessed and there is a debt to pay, in which the house will still be jointly mine), no lump sum, no maintenance for me, no claim to his businesses or pensions, but with him generously paying the CSA presrcibed maintenance formula.

I need to find someone who can actually help my children and I! All I wanted was financial support for our children! Is that too greedy?

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