I am trying to sell my conveyancing business in Australia and I have been told by a lawyer who said he was interested that the goodwill I have built up over 6 years from starting my business from nothing till now is worth nothing. I was flaberghasted. Does anyone know a fair way to value a business that is composed of good will with a 25% component of work in progress which is to be sold with the business????? I don’t want to give it away after 6 years of hard work and would love someone with conveyancing experience to enjoy the freedom of working from home and earning a good income and who is willing to pay me a fair price for all my hard work. I am retiring…I am sooo tired…..Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
I was abused at a dyslexic school in Suffolk in 1997. A conviction of 6 years was reached for the abuser at the Ipswich Crown court. And was awarded 12,000 pounds for mental anguish, and my mother father were also given 12,000 for lost school fee’s and air fairs, but what they claimed for was 50,000. However I feel that 12,000 pounds is not enough, to make up for my lost childhood. I have been trying to find out if I have recourse for a seconder claim. And have been using a well known law firm ( small but well known ) but have been very unhappy with there service. In 8 months all that has been done is write too the old school and that is it. (I found out >>)The school was sold in 1998. The lawyer told me, it was most likely that there was nothing too be done. However I tracked down the ex-owner myself from Australia as well as the school’s lawyers at time, I also had to hire a PI to help confirm my finding. I don’t feel I should have had to do this, as I am the client. They ignore my questions and instructions regarding my case. And for every 6 emails I send them I get one very short one back. I am doing more running around here in Australia then they are in the UK. Now ….know one knows if a full and final statement was ever sighed. As I was 13 at the time. My lawyer’s legal aid said she did not think it would be a problem if it had been sighed as I was under the age of 18. A media exclusion contract was sighed ( it was for 5 years ) but that is all, that my mother and father can remember, witch they felt forced to sigh as it was. We did not have proper legal advise, having been recommended to a firm, but where told they would not take on the case, but would be there in a supportive roll only. Funny they still sent us the bill! We found out some time after that they were not child abuse experts and were more corporate lawyers then anything. All our documents where lost when we moved to Australia, witch has slowed things down. However the old school lawyers have full copy’s, witch my lawyers are meant to be requesting, but it has been 2 weeks and has heard nothing at all.
I am now 25 , MY Lawyers contacted me via facebook , asking for info on abuse of a school by the same name but in Norfolk. I was with in my statute. And my mind had only just turned to litigation.
I have written to 8 different abuse claimant lawyer firms to ask for a second opinion . Is there anything more that I should/ could be doing ???
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Ok.. here’s the scenario..
We met and within a week were intimate.. we decided a month later to live together and then for the next 6 years were in contact dialy.. not a day went by that we didnt talk..
My girl at the time had no assets and a basic job paying K.. I was an executive, living near the beach I owned a business was earning six figures and drove a new BMW..
6 years forward.. she runs off one day.. only a week after I had relocated my office and life 500 meters from her family home.. i have never seen her since !!
I then heard she was preganant and already married to another guy !!
so clearly she cheated me clearly..
but she denies it all.. she has told everyone we had broken up years ago.. but i have proof we were still living together .. thats easy to prove..
i can also prove i spent 0,000 just in food, bills and rent as we lived either 20 meters off the beach or somewhere with sweeping city views for 6 years.. and i usually paid all the bills and most of the rent.
we also had businesses together.. and i had registered one in her name.. as we planned ot marry so she was gonna work it while pregnant.. how convenient.. she took that too and no doubty is working it now with her new husband.. she stole everything i owned in that business.. including stuff she aasked to borrow only weeks before dumping me suddenly..
i now lost my company and am unemployed living off my savings..
meanwhile.. she is living a comfortable life now.. and is rich.. married and already has kids..
i am still stuck 500 meters from her parents home !!
i can sew her under de facto laws but no solicitor seems ot be interested..
does anyone know my rights here.. coz this feminist has completely robbed me.. and she did it with a smile on her face.
all info appreciated..
haha.. funny replies.. YET when it happens to YOU.. you’ll be the one down at the pub winging.. Stuart.. she took nearly a million dollars in property.. i got ZERO !! and she lied to me so badly you have no idea.. but yeah i realise it is poiuntless tryna sew a female in australia.. i will let it go.. and let kharma do its work.. revenge will be sweet !!
and thanks.. now i know not to EVER give a rats about anyone elses problems ever again .. thanks for liberating me from the social repsonsibility i thought i had.. now i know.. and that means your wife is not safe either !!
so dont winge and hate a guy for doing it with your wife.. blame your wife.. then post here for pity so i can say TOO BAD.. like you all just said to me..
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I am a legal secretary in Sydney and I work at a small firm. There are 2 solicitors and 2 permanent staff, I’m the "secretary" and we usually have a slightly younger "reception" girl. Now the reception girl quit, and her last day was a Friday when i was on holidays. I came back the next monday, the same day that one of the solicitors took holidays for the whole month.
The solicitors had decided that they would not advertise or interview while one was away, which is fair enough, I understand that. So I worked by myself for 4 weeks which was very tiring and stressful.
Now the solicitor has returned from holidays and there has been no talk of advertising and interviewing. Its the 4th of November now which means it is nearly Christmas. I am concerned that they will want to do the advertising and interviews when we come back in January which I do not want.
I have worked in this firm for 6 years and this has happened before a few years ago. I had to work by myself, and I had a repetitive stress injury in my wrist and shoulder find it mentally exhaustive.
What I want to know is if I bring up with my employers the fact that I don’t want them to wait until after Christmas to get another staff member, do I have any rights, especially any legislation, that I can refer to to support my position?
I wouldn’t have any idea where to look to find out. I know I have a right not to be overworked, but they will not listen to my argument because they will beleive their plan is more convenient to them. I really want to be able to back up my argument with some evidence as to my rights.
Any chance someone has dealt with something like this before and knows what I can do?
My ex and I separated and we have already had the property settlement done in court. I have to pay him a set amount of money. The court did not order the house to be sold, but I can only pay him his share if we sell the house. However, his child support payments have just been adjusted, and are quite a bit higher now than when we did property settlement in court. It would mean in 4 years time, he would have saved paying me what he is supposed to get under settlement. It also means the kids (3 and 6 years old) and I would not have to find somewhere else to live, move etc. I can refinance whats left of the mortgage into my name without a problem, plus save real estate fees, solicitors, removalists etc too.
Should I offer him no more child support payments ever, if he signs the house over to me? I can’t find a website that offers this kind of advice to people.
I live in rural NSW, Australia-that might be important to know legally?

Are you thinking about selling your home yourself? then