Ex husband has removed and damaged contents

Lios67

My friend’s ex husband has taken contents that were granted to her by way of court order . The former family home was “ sale agreed “ and she was given all the contents, but had to pay him half the value when the house was sold.Some of the contents she sold to the house buyer. On the final day she had to remove the last of the contents ( which was just before Christmas) she noticed some items were missing and he had damaged some furniture she had sold to the house purchaser. What can she do?

is_that_so

She should get in touch with her solicitor but I'd be inclined to advise her to walk away from any more mess. By the sounds of your post there are not many items even if there is a principle and a court order at stake.

Claw Hammer

Go to the guards and make a complaint of theft and criminal damage. Bring a copy of the court order.

Lios67

At the very least, will she be able to deduct the value of what he has taken and damaged? He has tormented her for two years and to be honest, she is weary.

Mr. Incognito

My first advice would be to stay out of it. Why would you insert yourself in someone's divorce..

My second piece of advice is divorced people are unreasonable with each other and will fight over anything.

I doubt he has damaged anything and it's may just be wear and tear that she's getting hysterical about and you may be encouraging.

I hate family law. Perfectly rational people turn into immature unreasonable idiots.

Dunfyy

It's the new owners problem she sold them

rock22

Why sell the property with the house when clearly the divorced husband wanted it?

Markcheese

rock22 wrote: »

Why sell the property with the house when clearly the divorced husband wanted it?

Did he though ? Sour grapes maybe ?
Plus there's the going through stuff to divy it up ,that can nasty and bitter too ...so maybe best avoided ,

Record what's there , ( not easy to record what's not there) what's damaged , move on in the least painful quickest way possible ...

Zebrag

Lios67 wrote: »

My friend’s ex husband has taken contents that were granted to her by way of court order . The former family home was “ sale agreed “ and she was given all the contents, but had to pay him half the value when the house was sold.Some of the contents she sold to the house buyer. On the final day she had to remove the last of the contents ( which was just before Christmas) she noticed some items were missing and he had damaged some furniture she had sold to the house purchaser. What can she do?

As a friend, be there for your friend as emotional support but physically, say out of it. You'll end up in the wrong position before you know it.

As for the house being sold with the contents included, and damaged, well unfortunately that's for the buyers to decided whether they want to confront the seller about this or these contents might be just used for the time being while they get themselves in a position to buy their own things and might not be too fussed. If the buyers haven't said too much then your friend could just shrug their shoulders and be thankful she's rid of the ex husband and house.

She paid she ex husband his share and she can now venture off to greater pastures. The ex husband just wanted his last word in and again if the buyers are concerned about this, there's no valid proof the ex husband done any damage so it's not worthy of another court appearance. Money wise anyways.

As other posters have said, it's not worthy of another fight and quiet simply if the damage isn't to the point of beyond repairable then there's not much to do than accept the fact that the ex husband done your friend and favour in this circumstances.

I hope your friend is okay and will soon see this as a blip in events that noone wants to go though