How A Solicitor’s Response Tipped Me Over The Edge.

It was just a few weeks after a former partner had flown back to the UK to be with his new love of his life. He thought leaving me here in Spain to look after the property sale was okay. Only I was not OK. 

October 5th 2020
I received another long email from Phillip. His final words in the email told me he would go to court to evict from the house. “Be in no doubt that under those circumstances, you will leave my house with absolutely no financial support whatsoever from me.”

So this is the third time that I have been threatened with being thrown out of the property legally or unlawfully, I am at my wits ends. It was bad enough that he ended our relationship the way he did. But now I’m being threatened with eviction and further emotional and financial devastation.

My friends keep telling me to seek legal advice, I have tried but to be honest I seem to be getting nowhere with the Solicitors I’m contacting. They either do not deal with the advice I’m seeking or they don’t get back to me.

14th October 2020
I finally found a Spanish solicitor to have a face-to-face appointment. 
He listens to my story and part of the recorded meeting with my ex, but only up to the angry outburst, where Phillip bangs his hand on the table and starts shouting and swearing while threatening to throw me out of the house. 
(13 minutes and 37 seconds into the 23-minute recorded meeting) He tells me to stop the recording and asks me what he did then. So I explained and then he gave me his advice, which was to file a gender violence denuncia against my former partner. 
I had been trying to communicate with our Solicitor who had acted in the purchase of the property in 2015. I had hoped for cooperation or negotiation through legal channels. So I asked this new solicitor to help me by writing on my behalf to his solicitor. I thought that things could be sorted out. Only, he repeated his advice, that I needed to file a denuncia and I would receive free legal help, then I would receive financial assistance and psychological support. He said, “Did you not hear what he said, you can not negotiate with him.”

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