Responding to solicitors letter

[Anna713]

My son is in the process of a very unpleasant divorce. The family court has ordered that his daughter should live with him and his wife has limited, supervised access. Throughout the whole process his wife has bombarded him with emails and solicitors letters accusing him of various ridiculous accusations, all of which he has been able to complete repudiate via his solicitor. Of course all this is very expensive. He has just received yet another letter via his own solicitor. He can easily prove that her accusations are completely without foundation, he has emails to prove this, and he has contacted social services who are satisfied with his conduct and the police who are sympathetic. They have advised a non molestation order but of course this will take time and is yet more money. I think he will have to go down this route but does he need to get his solicitor to contact her solicitor every time she makes yet another ridiculous accusation or can he just ignore her.

She can get her solicitor to send whatever she likes and it's just that - correspondence from a solicitor. He's under no obligation to respond or even acknowledge it.

We've been there with the hairbrained accusations and learnt quickly to just ignore her solicitors demands.

As long as he can produce what he needs to in court he's all too. DH also represented himself in court on occasion too to keep costs down u told it all subsided.

Thank you. That is so useful

As the above poster says - a solicitor will write anything a paying client tells them to.

I would ignore the solicitor’s letters (let her waste her money & solicitors time).

He only needs to respond if I judge requests the information (and they can see through ridiculous accusations).

My now DH had years of absolute rubbish sent through to him by his EW via her solicitor. She became more inflamed when he stopped responding. Fortunately when it all did go to court the judge saw through her bullshit very quickly.

Your son is also able to represent himself in court.

Solicitors letters are like any other correspondence. Just that - letters you can choose to answer or ignore.

The only thing you must not ignore are orders from the court.

We self represented. Ex wife paid £24k in an effort to remove the sdc overseas. We paid 0. We won.