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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:28:13 -0000, "Joe Lee"
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Madbag wrote:
Please can anyone help with this information i can't find anywhere.
My father has recently died, but his exgirlfriend still had a key to
his property and entered and took a key, paperwork relating to the
estate and a painting my dad painted and possibly other stuff that
we don't know about. At the time, we realised someone had been in
the property and didn't know who and so we called the police and
they sent the fingerprint man round. We have had nothing back from
this, but we have had a letter from her solicitor admitting that
she had been at the property, but not admitting to have taken
anything. What should the executor do?

Why did the solicitor have a key to the house ?


Where does it say solicitor had a key?

I misread it for *his* solicitor.

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Joe Lee

In message , Blah
writes

Fingerprints don't have datestamps...

Effectively they do if they are found on an item that you can prove was
only brought into the house after her last legitimate visit. i.e. a
dated envelope or yesterdays news paper.

--
Bill
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself against my enemies.

The Solicitor didn't have a key, the ex girlfriend did. It was in her solicitors letter that it admitted she had been in the property.

We would like to know, that because we believe that she took paperwork and share certificates with my dads name on, we have asked her solicitor to ask her to return everything she has belonging to dad so that we can settle probate and distribute the estate accordingly, but they say they are not returning anything. Can we ask the police to get a warrant to search her property for the missing items?

The proof of ownership, would not be disputed because the items of paperwork will have my dads name and address on, that proves they don't belong to her.

Bill wrote:
In message , Blah
writes

Fingerprints don't have datestamps...

Effectively they do if they are found on an item that you can prove was
only brought into the house after her last legitimate visit. i.e. a
dated envelope or yesterdays news paper.

Good point, well made.

Please can anyone help with this information i can't find anywhere.
My father has recently died, but his exgirlfriend still had a key to
his property and entered and took a key, paperwork relating to the
estate and a painting my dad painted and possibly other stuff that
we don't know about. At the time, we realised someone had been in
the property and didn't know who and so we called the police and
they sent the fingerprint man round. We have had nothing back from
this, but we have had a letter from her solicitor admitting that
she had been at the property, but not admitting to have taken
anything. What should the executor do?-

Why did the solicitor have a key to the house ?-


Where does it say solicitor had a key?-

I misread it for *his* solicitor.

--
Joe Lee

The Solicitor didn't have a key, the ex girlfriend did. It was in her
solicitors letter that it admitted she had been in the property.


Have the executors changed the locks now?

Peter Crosland

The fact that she entered the house without the executors permission ad whilst it was supposed to be locked down in probate, is that not an offence in itself?

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Have the executors changed the locks now?

Peter Crosland[/quote]

Yes and in the process of getting camera's fitted.

The Solicitor didn't have a key, the ex girlfriend did. It was in her
solicitors letter that it admitted she had been in the
property

Have the executors changed the locks now?


Yes and in the process of getting camera's fitted.


Good. It sounds as though the real difficulty is going to be a question of
proof. Unless you have this it is going to be impossible to take action
against the ex girlfriend. I can't help feeling that there is much more to
this situation than you have disclosed. Unless you tell the full facts it is
difficult for anyone to give constructive comments.

Peter Crosland