Mortgage arrears

[Jinxie1024]

Hello All,

I've recently gone through a divorce. My ex wife left the marital home and found herself rented accomodation. I found myself left with bank loans/credit card bills/maintenance, etc. I approached the A&L after talking to friends and asked if I could transfer the mortgage to an interest only repayment until the house was sold. My property at the time was for sale at 280k. The A&L agreed that I could change th interest only and gave me illustration figures saving me some £200 per month. They said they would transfer only after my ex wife and I signing a consent form as the mortgage was in a joint name. My ex wife refused to sign the form. A&L told me that without both signatures I would have to pay the full mortgage amount. Faced with being in a position of being unable to pay the mortgage I cancelled the direct debit and sent the&L a cheque every month to cover the interest only, accompanied every month by a letter explaining my circumstances.My hous took over a year to sell at 200k. I have recieved numerous letters from the A&L over that period insisting that I pay the arrears, some letters have been charged at £30 each, some £80 each. I have a statement which gives a total of these charges at £900 plus. Am i entitled to claim this back seeing as in my opinion I paid the interest and the A&L have had the "arrears" when my mortgage was redeemed.

 

Steve

[zootscoot]

Hi Steve,

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

I've moved your thread to the mortgage forum so that you can get more specialist help

 

You'll find the mortgage forum as a sub forum off of the forum entitled 'other institutions'.

 

Yes you can claim these charges back, although if it was a joint mortgage you may need to get your ex's consent to do so.

 

First off do a SAR to get your statements back. There is a template letter in the 'bank templates library'.

 

The rest of the templates you need are in the stickies at the top of this forum.

 

All the best

 

Zoot