Can a bailiff take 16yo son's possessions?
Can a bailif take possessions that belong to someone else who lives in the same house.
My lad has had a lot of his really nice quality possessions bought by grandparents and uncles, aunts etc for presents.
My daughter had to declare herself bankrupt you see and after all the paper work had been filled out and the telephone calls to the receiver people etc said that they would send someone to come and collect what she has put down as items of value to reclaim some of what is owed and so on. She tells me they were all very polite about it and explained whats what. The seem to forget about her sons stuff.
She has put down what she has of value etc so they will collect that and said they wont be sending a couple of garillars round. They said you will find it would be Mr Average from a local acution place like a acution market where you get farm animals, machinery and other bankrupt stock for sale.
I am concerned about his stuff. Can they take it. I should hate for him to come home and find some cretain has taken his stuff that has no claim what so ever on his mothers debt for which she is sorting out.
If anyone has any suggestions / advice or if they have been through similar then do please let me know.
Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any replies.
Fred
Thougth I would try these smiley things out while I was here.
Fred
Fred
I thought that these bailif people could do what they want to some degree.
Are they not normally big guys with size 12 doc martin boots on and look very intimerdating ?.
There is a lot of views I have heard over the years such as the bailif turns up at your door. You let him in and he says right ok I am taking that, that and that and so on or are they not allowed to do such as that.
As for taking the lads possesions if they belong to him then I would have thought they could not touch someone elses things that have nothing to do with the person whom has had to declare themselfs bankrupt.
You could say for example that you might have a college friend staying with you for a few months while a rented room becomes available and what if mr bailif was to go in that room and take such as there ipod, laptop, tv and anything else of value belonging to that person. Surely that would then be some form of steeling / removing goods that have nothing to do with the original person in question.
I can see that this is going to be a very interesting post as just out of general interest I for one should like to see how this pans out.
Mouse
Mouse
As far as I know a bailif can not take what dose not belong to you. For example granny may live with you. He can not take her belongings as that would be steeling. You may have to give some form of proof if granny is all high tech and has a state of the art laptop to do her bingo on or put a few quid on the gee gee's.
But as far as I know they can only take your things but they are not mean to leave you without such as cooker, fridge clothes etc. I think they only go for say the new state of the art stereo you bought or the mercedes parked in the drive. Stuff that they can sell at an auction to make some money back. I understand it covers there costs and the rest goes back to people you owe monies to.
Jamie
Good Luck on that one.
Keep us posted on here the out come if you can.
Jamie
You know I meant to reply to this ages ago but I have got so wrapped up in other topics what with reading them and then forgetting what I was meant to be replying to. Silly old me hey.
Fred
Fred
Unfortunately, I don't think that they will just leave his stuff alone. They will probably want proof that your sister didn't purchase the items, otherwise what is stopping her saying that the entire contents of the house is his? If I were them I would remove his possesions from the premises until they have taken everthing.
It's rediculous that they would actually come in and take a kid's possessions. Unfortunately the entire business sounds really messy and I'm sorry to hear you have to deal with it. Judging from your complete distraction from the issue, it would seem that things have resolved themselves somewhat. If in doubt though, speak with an attorney...