Estoppel Question Advise Needed

[Tiger7861]

Me and my partner live in my parents house for 15 years now they want me out in the past on numerous occasions they have promised me and my partner the house but nothing on paper
The deeds are in there name and we have never paid any rent or mortgage but we have spent money on the property over 10 years about 15k . Do I have any chance of keeping the house or staying here we have 2 children the solicitor had advised me of estoppel saying that you parents have broken there promise?Additional DetailsI forgot to mention me and my husband are separated know he is saying that no promise was made I have a witness to the promise but we did apply for local housing housing register waiting for a house will that have any significance ?
As the landlords are saying one of the conditions of staying there was that you stay on the hosing register.
In other words we did not reply to our detriment can this act bee taken like this ?

[tamborine]

As I read it, your home is not a tied property in the true sense. A tied house goes with a job whereas your inlaws are not employers. Hence a trial but be advised by CAB as they have the legal help & advice you require; you dont have the income for the case.

[Tiger7861]

Sorry understand ur answer

[Tiger7861]

Dnt understand ur answer tambo

[tamborine]

Where do you live & will search for your CAB office

[Tiger7861]

I know where it is I am asking do all cases like this of to trial
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[tamborine]

No, only if there is a dispute. You are disputing your occupancy rights. CAB will help you stay there as they wont let you & kids be homeless.

[Tiger7861]

I'm saying will the court allow this to go to trial

[tamborine]

No, not unless your Nigella Lawson with ooodles of mooolah to loose.

[woofgang]

You can choose to try to take it to court (not trial) but you will be lucky in the extreme to find a solicitor or a barrister to take it on if they think that you have no money for their fees, which will be high.

YOU HAVE NO CASE.

[boxtops]

who knows, tiger? generally people try to settle these sort of disputes without going to court, due to the enormous costs of judge, barristers, etc. You keep saying you think you have a chance - do you not get it, that the rest of think you are kidding yourself?

[EDDIE51]

I give up!
Tiger, you have been told over and over again if this case goes to court you will LOOSE , you have NO CHANCE AT ALL.
If you insist on going to court I am 100% sure that the court will refuse to even accept the case as your argument is so weak as to be non existent.
You DO however have a priority case to get council housing and as I assume you do not work the council housing will be free until your children leave school.

[Peter Pedant]

Eddie - Eddie..... calm yourself

Tiger- should be tigress- has been told she has a case ( I stand convicted on that one ) and then she said certain things - like 'the fifteen tharsand wasnt mine vicar, ' and was told she now didnt have a snowflakes chance in hell....

and we have been very good and not said - you have intentionally misled us Tiger

and Tiger has very reasonable thought - well if I unsay the thing that completely screwed my case - then I will have my case back again !

simples.....

Think - if I dont go to court - I will get evicted, so go to court and fling the die ! Think slow motion car crash.....and calm yourself....

[boxtops]

Still means "don't go" Peter, surely, she's on a hiding to nothing, and it'll cost her up to £13K to find that out.....

[Tiger7861]

Ok here's an update solicitor emailed me he said after speaking to a barrister we will go to court disputing this and the judge will say its a case for trial

[woofgang]

do they know you have no money to pay them?

[boxtops]

It's your decision, Tiger - be prepared for that £13,000 bill then, your solicitor suggested that figure. Have you got that sort of money?

[bednobs]

problem being of course, the solicitor gets paid whether you win or lose, so they have no incentive to say "don't do it"

[Barmaid]

If you have a solicitor who can get counsel's advice that quickly and can form an opinion about trial without even seeing you at this stage why on god's sweet earth are you bothering to ask random strangers on a forum?!

[Barmaid]

£13k? No idea where that came from. Triple it and add some and you are getting close.

[boxtops]

Barmaid:

From Tiger, yesterday:
Solicitor has advised if it goes to trial 13k
11:26 Fri 17th Jan 2014

That might just be her legal fees, of course, from what you say, not including the other side's!