Tuesday, September 21, 2010

What rights do baliffs have to enter family property and remove possessions when you no longer live at home?

I am going through a bankruptcy and debts, Inland Revenue, council parking fines for previously owned vehicles registered to home and other family addresses. Not to mention being chased by credit card companies, mobile phone etc. to whom I also owe money.



The baliffs came yesterday and threatened forced entry and removal of possessions. My parents told them I no longer lived there and nothing was in the house belonging to me. They were told that unless they pay (which they did on this occasion) property will be removed and the onus is completely on us to prove it does not belong to me.



Clearly its a very unhappy situation to have one's family drawn into one's independent financial circumstances (brought on by a failed business venture and poor health preventing me from taking a 'regular job' although I have never, neither will claim state benefit) I am considering bankruptcy and need to confront my creditors not least to stop my family being harassed. Anyone with experience?