Hi Richard,(posted 7648 days ago)Further to the already excellent advice given on this site and which I totally respect I must however state that even though my fiance's ex-wife has paid towards the debt (albeit about £5 four year's ago) they are treating his and her finances separately, and my fiance is sticking with some advice a barrister friend gave us that the wording of the Limitations Act is very bad.
Sent this letter back in October of last year when they accused my ex- fiance of not advising of his current address and have heard nothing since:
Dear Ms. XXXX,
Reference your letter XX/XXX/XXXXX. I find your letter rather perturbing as I have been in contact with your client, via Hammonds Suddards Edge at the above address for over 12 months now. I served a Subject Access Rights Notification upon your client in November 2001 which I duly received and to my horror included documentation pertaining to my former wife’s income and expenditure, something which goes very much beyond the boundaries of the Data Protection Act and upon which, I understand, she is currently undertaking complaints procedures. Mr. X’s letter, reference XXX/XXX and dated 25th February 2002 was sent to my current residence, and duly responded to on 7th March 2002 and this made my position regarding the alleged debt completely clear, therefore I am at a loss as to your second paragraph which is completely irrelevant in regards to my circumstances. I suggest your client checks their records as I do believe that I am consistently being confused with my former wife, someone with whom I have had no dealings with on a financial basis for many years now and am concerned that my own personal and confidential dealings are being joined with hers, something I insist on not occurring as I have never admitted or paid towards the alleged debt. Please refer to my previous correspondence, a copy of which I will forward should this be necessary and to the following 12 month’s of correspondence, some of which took place via my solicitor but all at the above, and same, residence. Many thanks for your kind attention.
It will be 12 year's next Summer since the property was vacated and if we do hear from the BSociety before this will continue to make the stand that he has never acknowledged/admitted this debt.