Hi, apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong section.
I'm writing on behalf of my boyfriend. He did some design work for a person 10 years ago and she still owes him just over €5000. He was living in Spain at the time and she is in Ireland. He is now in London (as am I). They have had lots of correspondence over the years and she fully knows what she owes him, paid the odd tiny instalment here and there - it's just lately she is full of excuses. But posts pics of her on Facebook riding horses, etc. She also has a new company which seems to be doing quite well from what I can see.
He suffered from ill health for a few years (and moved a lot) so didn't deal with the stress of dealing with her legally - is it too late now? How can I help him get his money back from her?
I've heard of something called a European Payment order - can you do that without a solicitor? Or do you absolutely NEED a solicitor?
We don't have much money but this woman owes other designers too, and has gone bankrupt a couple of times (we think in order to get out of paying people), so we think she knows how to play the system. All we want to do is make an official/legal demand to get her to pay him what she owes.
Thanks so much in advance for any advice you can give!