COD or anyone else with legal knowledge, can you help please?

[StrawberrySnowflakes]

my mum has been divorced over 10 years, she has struggled to apy mortgage and as result is now thousands of pounds in arrears.
We cant pay off arrears and re-mortgage as his name is still on mortgage
we cant get his name off mortgage becasue she is in arrears
even if she could pay off arrears, they would then want her to pay 6 months of full apyments(twice as much as she can afford to pay at minute), and then they would 'consider' letting her remortgage in her own name..only they wouldnt do it as she cant afford full amount now!

he agreed to sign house over to her(through solictors) so she could re mortgage and do repairs, but none of this can be done as she is in arrears

only route we can take is to sell.
house is falling down atround her.
got offer, buyer had survey, searches everything done.

solicitor sent him numerous letters explaining what she ahs ahd to do..no reply..(or not that they have told us about)..mum gets letter this morning, from hers with letter from his..........he will sign for sale but wants money from sale.

we knew he would do this as hes a fucking wanker, but what can we do.

mum has no money, cant work as is quite ill(copd, diabetes, arthritus and on and on)
he works on the oil rigs and is earning very good money i would assume, he hasnt contributed for over ten years.

solicitor last week said if he wouldnt sign all over it would have to go to court, money would be held by them until they decide who gets what!!!!!!
what the hell will happen to my mum?
how long will this take?
would he get half?

well i think your fab and youve really helped..and now i understand i can explain it to mum i n no nonsemce terms.thankyou..ill let you know outcome of next 14 days

i meant 'nonsence'

Hi Zookeeper( name changed sorry)

just rang conveancy solicitor, 'he'(mums exH) has said he wants money held by solicitor as he is contesting it.she has sent him copy of sale contracts to sign, but has not had those back yet..so mum is now playing a very uncertain waiting game, buyer is getting itchy feet and wants to be in, mum hasnt packed a thing..im geting overly stressed now!

Hi Zookeeper(dont even know if you see this thread anymore?), but just had call from solicitor saying he has wrote to his own(after weeks of stress and arsy letters now)saying he wants nothing from the sale of the property!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He still has contract or rather his solicitor does, but he is now on his 2 weeks off work AFAIK, so we will hopefully get it back this week sometime..just wanted to say thankyou and although not sorted in total yet, i couldnt have done a lot of this without your advice..THANKYOU

no idea on this kind of thing. Sorry SS

speedign amd i am your gal.

is that you cod?, youve answered me already thanks, im just updating..thanks for coming back tho

i cant keep up with your name changes!

Sorry pinkchick - sorry no to have been around!

that's great news! Even if he changes his mid and asks for the money to be held pending an agreemnent your mum should agree to it being held rather than lose the sale.

why the name change?

I can spell, just can't type!

everyone kept calling me sally (sallystrawberry) and i was confusing people, even though i liked the name, so at easter i wanted to be easter chick(i always call people chick as opposed to 'hun' 'babe' etc, but it was taken so pink/strawberry???..anyway!

thank god we have something in writing that he will want no profit, just got to get his signature on that contract now! am off to mams tomorrow after dd been to school to help her pack and have to keep rining housing associations to see if they have suitable flat/bungalow for her!..phew, cant wait until shes sold and settled in new place and i can then relax!

sorry, yes she did initially agree for him to have nothing but take it to court for them to decide so he would still sign contract, meaning she got something to live on but not full amount, but now hopefully thats not needed