parking fine and bailiffs.

[scardeycat]

Stupid stupid ex managed to gtetc 3 parking tickets on my car, never mentioned it.

I've now got a bailiff saying it's been to court and now I need to pay £710 immediately.

I have offered a payment plan but he has refused and wants to take my car and /or goods from my home.

I am petrified. Is there any way I can make them accept a payment plan?

I feel sick just thinking of them coming in here andt taking what little stuff we have.

This all seems very odd. You should have had piles of letters coming to your house before the baliff. If you don't pay a parking ticket within a fixed time - eg 21 days - you start getting warning letters. The first would ask if you were the driver. They get nastier and there are several more before the court summons. Multiply by five for the five tickets - but you've had nothing. If your ex was in the house at the time he may have been monitoring your mail and stealing these - it would be theft if the letters were addressed to you, as the registered owner of the car.

The council may turn out to be reasonable if you explain all this - mine has cancelled parking tickets issued in error, and summonses re council tax that were mistakes. I would start by calling their parking dept as they would have ordered up the summonses, and I would have thought that they can cancel the summonses in your name, and re-issue them to your ex.

Don't agree to pay anything. Call the police if the baliff gets aggressive. It's not your debt.

Have a look on pepipoo - they are very knowledgeable about parking tickets etc.
HTH

I had a similar problem. Ere's what u do:

1. Dont park ur car at home. Bailiffs get nadty if they

dont get money so clamp n towing away cars is common n legal.

1. Go online, complete n email appeal form to court.

The council has passed matter on to bailiffs so they not bothered to help.

1. Explain to court u wrre not the drver at the time of

incident. If pissible, explain why eg u were at work in office at the time. Also say u rcvd no paperwork so were not aware u had to pay.

1. Check where ur log book is registered. If its a diff addie, check

there if post came.

1. Make sure u get an electronic confirmation that ur appeal is lodged
2. Bailiffs now cant do anything until sppeal settled. Do u can park ur car at home again

u also got roughly 45 days to come up with depisit! Make sure u go to court n fight if date set. Most bailiffs give up at court hearing date. Good luck n dont let bailiff inimidate u!