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 ?

[Peter Pedant]

ask your lawyer ! You're paying him enough

You're asking us - and we, all walk-ins to your life are milling around trying to help in an area none of us ( bar bar maid ) know anything about

[Tiger7861]

So this adhd issue will this help me or not

[Peter Pedant]

Ed - youre right - we dont know all the facts
and some of the 'facts' we know are the other way round

so we are really not in a position to give ssensible advice -altho I agree this hasnt stopped me so far

[sherrardk]

Please don't use your child as a bargaining chip, that's low IMO (you are already on thin ice).

[Tiger7861]

I'm not will that help me

[ummmm]

Living rent free?

[EDDIE51]

You can't afford a mortgage but you CAN afford a QC???
Look here
http://www.lambbuilding.co.uk/services/fees.php
QCs charge £250 to £350 per HOUR !! A court case as complicated as this will run for days. it will cost well over your £13,000 just to prepare the case for trial!
Your sons ADHD will NOT stop you being evicted .

[Tiger7861]

Why does my solicitors think adhd will help me

[Tiger7861]

No child having adhd with keeping the house

[Peter Pedant]

I think you might have to ask the fella who said it,
rather than us ... you're more likely to get a true answer

[Tiger7861]

Sorry just thinking what has adhd got to do with estoppel nothing

[scorpiojo]

Why don't you ask the CAB or Shelter for (free) advice re your son's ADHD/eviction?

[Peter Pedant]

Oh I can tell you for free ADHD has absolutely nothing to do with estoppel

Nichty nochty nil nix nothing.

[Tiger7861]

But can that stop the eviction. For about few years my child issue

[browntrout]

what you really need is a colony of bats in the attic. that would make them sit up and take notice.

[Tiger7861]

Only proper advice no smart comments plz this is a testing time

[FredPuli43]

The solicitors will want something in advance. How much is the something? Or are they financing the expenses of launching a trial themselves, and billing you later?

If you lose, you pay all your own lawyers' costs plus the lawyers' costs of the other side. That's the normal rule. If you win, the likelihood is that you will not recover all your costs from the other side.

I cannot comprehend, if you have told solicitors and counsel what you have told us, and we have the whole story, how any ethical lawyer would advise that you can win this. There are professional lawyers on here, in this thread, who take a dim view of both the sums you have been quoted and your prospects .

You have a solicitor and , apparently, counsel. Obvious, but if you have them , why are you asking complete strangers ?

[Peter Pedant]

Hi Fred - firing on all cylinders I see....

[Tiger7861]

Well that's wht I have been told that I have a chance

[Tiger7861]

Paying instalments