Wife took items belonging to parents...
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I've been separated from my wife for 6 months, and she's already moved out of the home.
Around the same time my parents moved back to the UK from Spain and left a few things with me to look after...
It seems my wife (who I'm divorcing at the moment) popped back to the house whilst I was with my parents over Christmas and has taken a load of their items... thinks like a decent Bose system, my dads DSLR camera and all his lenses, a good coffee grinder... any idea if this would be classed as theft? I'm worried that if I call the police they will deal with it as a civil issue, not a criminal one?
Thanks in advance
Around the same time my parents moved back to the UK from Spain and left a few things with me to look after...
It seems my wife (who I'm divorcing at the moment) popped back to the house whilst I was with my parents over Christmas and has taken a load of their items... thinks like a decent Bose system, my dads DSLR camera and all his lenses, a good coffee grinder... any idea if this would be classed as theft? I'm worried that if I call the police they will deal with it as a civil issue, not a criminal one?
Thanks in advance
Well thanks to some of you for the advice... 
Yes, my ex works in law, and yes she stopped paying anything towards the mortgage so I was looking for ways to encourage her to pay again. It was mentioned to me by a friend also in law that the SRA doesn't look to fondly on lawyers intentionally getting into debt or mismanaging their finances so I looked into raising that issue with my ex. But I have no way to communicate with her directly now so contacting the SRA (well, CILEX it turns out) would be the only way. Why this is a bad thing I don't know - lawyers are supposed to be reputable and ethically sound, so when they're not it's a bad move right?
So as well as refusing to pay towards the house, she still wants half of the house and has even said she wants the future value to be considered (comical!) and the icing on the cake was her entering the house while I was away and clearing it completely - not even a knife and fork was left.
I'm only asking for advice as I've never gone through this before.
Yes, my ex works in law, and yes she stopped paying anything towards the mortgage so I was looking for ways to encourage her to pay again. It was mentioned to me by a friend also in law that the SRA doesn't look to fondly on lawyers intentionally getting into debt or mismanaging their finances so I looked into raising that issue with my ex. But I have no way to communicate with her directly now so contacting the SRA (well, CILEX it turns out) would be the only way. Why this is a bad thing I don't know - lawyers are supposed to be reputable and ethically sound, so when they're not it's a bad move right?
So as well as refusing to pay towards the house, she still wants half of the house and has even said she wants the future value to be considered (comical!) and the icing on the cake was her entering the house while I was away and clearing it completely - not even a knife and fork was left.
I'm only asking for advice as I've never gone through this before.
Edited by dinosaur.mod on Friday 19th January 20:33
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