Lawyer/solicitor specialising in Timeshare contracts -where?
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My MIL has a timeshare somewhere in Portugal, which they haven't visited for years and the maintenance fees have been climbing over and above the cost of a proper holiday £1000 odd a year for two weeks. She wants to get rid of it as she is no longer really able to afford it and is worried that it will be a burden to her family, if she gets ill or dies as the Timeshare is supposed to be in perpetuity.
I've warned her not to get into any further contracts with these crooks and so far have been able to stop her shelling out thousands of pounds for changes in exchange partners, changes in contracts etc. but for how much longer? I've just managed to stop her shelling out £3900 odd she can't afford for a bamboozling new contract that was supposed to relieve the burden of perpetuity and supposedly allows her to give up her timeshare, but everywhere she turns she manages to meet another charlatan trying to extract her money.
How the hell do you find a lawyer or solicitor that will give the correct advice and help her leave this total nightmare? If it was me I'd be inclined to stop all payments and let them whistle for the money via the courts, if they dared, but being the soul she is I suspect this is not a situation she would contemplate. Knowing a bar-room lawyers advice (mine) is probably not the way to go, I throw myself on the wisdom of PH and hope suggestions are forthcoming
I've warned her not to get into any further contracts with these crooks and so far have been able to stop her shelling out thousands of pounds for changes in exchange partners, changes in contracts etc. but for how much longer? I've just managed to stop her shelling out £3900 odd she can't afford for a bamboozling new contract that was supposed to relieve the burden of perpetuity and supposedly allows her to give up her timeshare, but everywhere she turns she manages to meet another charlatan trying to extract her money.
How the hell do you find a lawyer or solicitor that will give the correct advice and help her leave this total nightmare? If it was me I'd be inclined to stop all payments and let them whistle for the money via the courts, if they dared, but being the soul she is I suspect this is not a situation she would contemplate. Knowing a bar-room lawyers advice (mine) is probably not the way to go, I throw myself on the wisdom of PH and hope suggestions are forthcoming
No direct experience in Timeshare, just wanted to add that instead of selling the thing, you can't even give it away and you have to pay someone to take it off your hands then that is bloody awful.
Not sure it would have to be a specialist, a decent local solicitor with the chance to go over the paperwork in detail would be the best port of call.
The concepts are not difficult legally speaking, but the devil is in the detail of the contract which would need a professional eye methinks.
Not sure it would have to be a specialist, a decent local solicitor with the chance to go over the paperwork in detail would be the best port of call.
The concepts are not difficult legally speaking, but the devil is in the detail of the contract which would need a professional eye methinks.
anonymous said:
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Well I've just been told it was signed in Leicester square in 1988, MIL now saying she only has a signed sale agreement and never received a contract or something that looks like it - I'll have look see. But I'm now assuming the UK, I take it that is better and more likely to get a lawyer that knows what they are doing? [footnote]Edited by thepeoplespal on Thursday 28th January 15:28 - was: I'm assuming Portugal, would need to check the original contract, which surprisingly the MIL still has. Which probably predates Portugal joining EU (if that is relevant).
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Edited by thepeoplespal on Thursday 28th January 17:29
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