Can I complain to Law society?? Bad advice

[oldandfedupp]

When drafting consent order I asked my solicitor about the fact I had been paying the full mortgage (over £1000pcm) for three years and that I wanted this protecting in the order (e.g. adjustment from 50/50 split when house sold). Solicitor advised me to sign the consent order as it stood to avoid upcoming court hearing.
Fast forward three more years house still hasn’t sold despite multiple reductions and obviously I’ve nearly paid off the mortgage. Yet won’t see a penny of my hard earned cash that I put into paying it. Fyi ex left me and our house while I was at work, to go start new relationship. I begged ex to return and ex did return a few times to collect things, etc but ultimately never came back after a few months.
Can I lodge a complaint with the law society??? Have already complained to solicitor and they say I signed it so that’s that?!? But I signed on THEIR advice!!

The appropriate method for complaints is to put in writing your complaint to the senior partner at the firm which handled the matter. If you remain unsatisfied with their final response, you need to take the complaint forward to the Legal Ombudsman.

Your ex had to pay rent you had to pay the mortgage. Seems fair enough to me.

RedHelenB ex left me to start new relationship. I had no idea until I got home after work that ex was leaving/had left. No case for occupiers rent. I wanted ex to come home and to work on marriage.

In what way we’re you misled? You were fully aware that the order didn’t tick all your boxes. There may well have been a very valid reason for that.

This is not a complaint you need to make to the firm. If your gripe is that it was bad advice you would have to seek an second opinion from another solicitor.

So you were near the end of the morgage term. Have you worked out how much of the £1000 a month was interest and how much was capital and compared that against the rent he paid? Also then compare that sum (maxium presumably about £30k? capital) against what a contested hearing might have cost you - possibly more than £30k - our costs were £20k without a single hearing and the risk you might have been awarded less than you got and you might actually be up on had you gone to the hearing but it's very hard to say. Divorce law is very unclear and unpredictable. Usually it pays to avoid a hearing so that advice tends rarely to be wrong.