Getting rid of ex partners belongings
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I'm after some advice if anyone can help, following on from my previous thread about my mother's boyfriend threatening to kill my brother, he has been released from prison (he had a suspended sentence) and my mother has got a restraining order against him.
The thing we want to know is what do we do with his belongings, clothes, tools etc.
My mother asked the people from victim support and they said if you haven't heard off him or his solicitor after a week she can legally get rid of them as he as abandoned them.
Does anyone know if this is true?
He doesn't have any family we can contact and my mother hasn't got the space anymore to store it.
Thanks in advance
The thing we want to know is what do we do with his belongings, clothes, tools etc.
My mother asked the people from victim support and they said if you haven't heard off him or his solicitor after a week she can legally get rid of them as he as abandoned them.
Does anyone know if this is true?
He doesn't have any family we can contact and my mother hasn't got the space anymore to store it.
Thanks in advance
I would be tempted to rent a secure storage unit for 3 months disclosing the full reason with the storage company, pay in cash, photograph everything of value with a witness present, before locking it down and give him the key via his solicitor - to ensure there is a record of him having received it.
Mandalore said:
I would be tempted to rent a secure storage unit for 3 months disclosing the full reason with the storage company, pay in cash, photograph everything of value with a witness present, before locking it down and give him the key via his solicitor - to ensure there is a record of him having received it.
This. If it's thrown out it will only antagonise the situation further.Mandalore said:
I would be tempted to rent a secure storage unit for 3 months disclosing the full reason with the storage company, pay in cash, photograph everything of value with a witness present, before locking it down and give him the key via his solicitor - to ensure there is a record of him having received it.
The trouble with that is money, she is disabled and things are extremely tight TooMany2cvs said:
Perhaps a sympathetic family member could help her out there?
I was going to suggest that each family member puts in what they can to help her out.Sounds like she's had a bad time of things and wants rid of everything to do with him.
If he's been in Prison he must have supplied an address on release.
Maybe a letter to his Solicitor?
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