to think this man is a twat !

[drlove8]

have a very dear friend who has recently split from her ex-p.they have one dd and also share a mortgage.
freind is a nurse , her ex has his own business
Friend caught him cheating when she phoned him whilst on a business trip ,and OW answered the phone in his hotel room at 3am.
He is now not paying maintenence reguarly ,and has lied to CSA about his earnings...(complicated stuff - he disolved one of his companys and hid evidence, but stupidly forgot that friend is a 50% shareholder in company and documents were sent to her by mistake.)
Friend has been stuggeling (spell) to feed and cloth their daughter , because she is on a low wage and has to find half the morgage each month (very expensive house that he insisted they buy), plus find money for repairsto heating system and leaky roof that needed repaired (house is to be sold)
Ex-p refused to pay maintenence for the wee girl, was the month of her birthday and her mum had to borrow money to feed her , never mind buy her a small gift.
twat of an ex-p bought her a jucey coture tracksuit (pink velour with glitter , and gave her that for her birthday .... nice thing is he also included the receit . FECKING THING WAS NEARLY £300!. He also paid for dd to have day at recording studio with 8 friends and a limo there and back.
i just cant get my head around how this man could possibly think its ok to leave his ex struggeling to feed his daughter, in a freezing house (she cant afford to heat it)...and spend so much on gifts that she doesnt really need or want?
the tracksuit alone cost at least twice as much a friend gets in maintenence. surely a decent man would make sure his dd is warm and fed at least?.
My poor friend is in tears about this, she's so worried about her dd's health, and often goes without eating herself and lies to her dd saying she's eaten at work.
I WANT TO SLAP HIM ..... so aibu?

I am and about this solicitor - as someone else mentioned below, £500 an hour is magic circle rates! For someone charging that much, you'd expect the solicitor to have completely sorted out the situation, super fast, and to the advantage of your friend. This is appalling. I assume that as your friend is surprised about this, she wasn't given a contract up front? She should definitely go to the managing partner and then to the SRA if necessary. There's no way the solicitor should have taken on the work if she wasn't competent to do it - it appears that she doesn't have a colleague competent to do it either if she just brushed your friend off about the commercial aspects.

As your friend has also lost money on the sale of the shares due to this, you want to go beyond a complaint to the managing partner and SRA and ask your new solicitor to look into the possibility of suing this clown for negligence. Idiots like this give solicitors a bad name.

Oh, and her husband is definitely a jerk as well. Her new solicitor needs to have a serious "come to Jesus" talk with him, and make him start taking his responsibilities seriously.

And take the fugly tracksuit back and use the cash for something sensible, ffs.

Tbh my friend is in such a state of distress at all thats happened im not sure she even knows whats she signed, its sickening.
she is such a lovely kind person who always puts others first, i suppose her ex sees her as weak or an easy target ... someone who would put up with whatever he'd dish out to her.
her shares were not sold , the company was disolved/liquidated.... and any money from it has disapeared - probably into his new X5.
His new girlfriend is another quiet girl... shes most likely going to go through the same thing as my friend has.
She cant take tracksuit back as it was bought in london.... but then again theres always e-bay!

I feel so sorry for her drlove but she needs to find the anger, really. Getting mad will help her through this, at least in the short term.

Companies can be restored to the register for the purposes of suing them. Your friend's lame ass so called solicitor ought to know that. Did your friend have independent legal advice about dissolving the company she had a beneficial interest in? She should have done.

This solicitor is sounding negligent to me.