Minute of agreement

My husband was in later stages of cancer. His solicitor prepared a minute of agreement offering a capital sum if I gave up any claim on his estate. I signed away my legal rights. He refused payment. He died weeks later and I have no claim and no payment was made after investing in a business we built up over 20 years. The solicitor xxxx was censured by Law society for her part in what was a legal fraud

Edited to remove name of solicitor as this breaches site rules.

Wikivorce Team

Did you know he was terminally ill?

It does seem inequitable that you are not able to claim. I guess a lot rests on the legal status of the minute of,agreement.

Unfortunately a salutary lesson in the perils of signing over assets without a legally binding financial settlement in place. You have my sympathy.

Hadenoughnow

The minute of agreement was registered in Edinburgh and a legally binding contract.

The solicitor had written to me and said she was in funds and would send payment to me within 7 days.

Then my husband told solicitor to withhold payment.