Hello, I wonder if anybody can give me advice on the following. Me and my husband separated on the 16th January 2005 because I had commited adultery. I left the family home and took our son with me. We sold the house shortly after and split the money equally after paying off our joint debts. During the house sale he got me to sign a form claiming it was part of

Hi all, Ex hubby passed away two weeks ago, he left no will. We had one child together, he his now 8. My ex did not re-marry. He has several assets, such as Insurances, pensions, bank account, wages owed, death in service, car, personal belongings.. I have applied for probate to represent my son, as he his the next of kin. All what my ex had belongs to my son.

I was pre-paying for a parking ticket the other day, at 30p per hour, and I only had 2 x 20p. The machine did not dispense change, and had a sign which said "overpayment accepted". So I paid 40p for 30p of parking. If my newsagent had a sign above the till saying "overpayment accepted", and I paid for a 30p chocolate bar with a fiver, could they refuse to give me change? What is the difference?

Geoff Hartley wrote: Having suffered continual Criminal Harassment over a period of 18 months from various thugs and their families living in our neighbourhood and having found the police unwilling or unable to prosecute them I intend to take a Private Prosecution for Criminal Harassment with myself acting as Litigant In Person. However there is little information available for...

I need to have a property valued for probate/possible inheritance text. Slightly confused by some estate agents will provide a written market appraisal for free/whereas a valuation using a chartered surveyor is £250 +vat. Would only the valuation from the chartered surveyor be acceptable for probate/inheritance tax or would they accept the market appraisals? Thanks in advance.

I am in the process of creating a customised search engine for UK legal information. using google coop. The present home page for the search engine has the snappy url of http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=010819452991051030261%3Ae-khhshbz_e To work properly, the search engine needs a list of preferred websites to search, and I would be grateful for any recommendations - please just list as...

Hi Guys I couldn't find relevant information through Goggle, so here goes I was in a computer room today doing a re-cabling job and moved the plug of a UPS from one power socket to another. I accidentally touched the pins on the UPS mains plug and got an electric shock from it. Note: this was the actual mains plug itself, not a cable going into powered equipment (which I was expecting to...

Are there any legal obligations regarding opening times displayed in a shop window?

I'm taking a chance and guessing that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriageable_age#Europe is correct: United Kingdom * England: 18, 16 with parental consent * Wales: 18, 16 with parental consent * Scotland: 16 * Northern Ireland: 18, 17 with parental consent * Jersey: 18, 16 with parental consent

Hi, I am in the process of trying to quieten a rapidly brewing dispute between my aged parents and a rather forceful lady neighbour who is currently trying to sell her house. An issue is starting that has caused me to start looking at Land Registry records and it has raised a question that is confusing me. Anyway the question I could do with a bit of advice on is regarding a shared...

Hi, I asked the person in charge of copyright at the council who employs me as a teacher if I could produce videos in my own time for revision related to my work, which I could sell, I need to hold the copyright to sell them. The answer was no, the employer will claim copyright. Seems a bit draconian to me. Has this ever been tested in court, I'm in Scotland.

How would I find out if a couple married in England are now divorced? I have both partners names, and their address, but can't provide a diocese where the marriage occurred. Do I need more info, and how can I go about this please? Thanks. -- Best Regards, Chris.

Guy's Who has legal ownership of the posts on webbased forums...? Example A regular poster requests the mods to remove his account and all 2k posts (he has seen this request before and seen it done) However the mods just delete his account. He is now powerless to remove his posts himself.

I have read two totally opposing ideas on these. One is that having such signs on entrances to the gardens / grounds of private houses offers some indemnity to a dogs owner that has his / her animal bite an intruder, the other that such a sign is conducive to helping any claim an intruder may try to bring, by showing knowledge of a potential for ones dog to bite someone. Which is the true case in...

Dear All, I haven't payed a £30 traffic offense fine (not PCN), because I was abroad for a project. I tried paying for it just after coming back, but HMCS Oxford has returned my £45 cheque saying that they have transfered the fine to a bailiff. Now the Bailiff wants to charge me the £45 (30 fine + 15 HMCS) and a £50 fee on top of it. Apparently the £50 is just for "registering me on their...

Someone I know bought a house 4-5 years ago, and had the not-uncommon problems with being chased for debts run up by a previous occupier. He did the sensible stuff of explaining what had happened, accepted that debt collection agencies can be a bit suspicious of this claim, etc, and got it all sorted out. Recently however, he's discovered that this previous occupier is *still* giving this...

Party "A" makes an offer to party "B" on 1st October to supply a service to last for 6 months. Party "B" does not acknowledge or accept/reject this offer until 1st November. Does the period of 6 months start when the offer was made or when the offer was accepted by party "B". I assume 1st November when both parties are in agreement over the terms.

Please, anyone. Where on the net can I find precedents for the following applications in a County Court action: 1. Application for further and better particulars and 2. Discovery of Documents? Do I have to make two separate applications for (1) and (2) or can both requests be incorporated in the one application? --

LibTomCrypt v1.15 was released today. Lots of changes http://libtomcrypt.org/changes.txt] and fixes in this release. Note that the documentation is not complete and will be updated within a month or so (I have the OLPC work to start this weekend...). Recent changes include the addition of the SEED and KASUMI block ciphers, F9 and XCBC MAC and PKCS #1 v1.5 support. The ciphers/MACs were added...

I advertised a TV and a washing machine in Loot - both online and in print. I got many enquiries about the washing machine but few about the TV. One of the enquiries for the TV was by email - each time asking about the price. In fact, I chased up whether the person was still interested. Note that I mentioned a figure of £15 and this has suddenly transmuted to £1,500. This is the first time...