Old bank statemnts

[Dooly]

Hi, Does any one know if you can obtain a copy of a bank statement from 1987, as proof that I purchased a property for my parents.

[honeybee13]

Hello and welcome to CAG.

 

That's a big ask 27 years on, isn't it? Did you speak to the bank?

 

Do you have any legal paperwork from when you bought it? Or there's a chance that the lawyer who dealt with it might have something.

 

I don't know what information the Land Registry would hold.

 

Please tell us more about your story and we can decide which is the best forum to advise you.

 

My best, HB

[Dooly]

Hi,

I have tried contacting the lawyer but the practice have no records going back to that time. The Land Registry shows the property in my mothers name. I also tried contacting the Woolwich but they can not help. I purchased the property in 1987 from cashed in investments and I need to find proof that I paid for it.

Thanks

[honeybee13]

Can you get proof that you cashed in the investments?

 

HB

[slick132]

Hi Dooly,

 

Were you expecting the ppty to be showing as owned by you on the Land Registry.

 

You say above you purchased the ppty FOR your parents in 1987 which is perhaps why it shows as registered to YM.

 

Was it purchased outright, ie with no mortgage.

 

If the ppty is registered in YM's name, it will be treated as owned by her, regardless of who bought it. The only exception would be if a legal deed was drawn up at the time and registered with Land Registry to show your interest in ownership. Perhaps a Declaration of Trust would have been appropriate.

 

Have your parents now passed on, and the ppty is being dealt with as an asset of the deceased, as opposed to yours ?

 

[Dooly]

Can you get proof that you cashed in the investments?

 

HB

 

I have tried contacting the original investment company's, but they no longer hold any record of that far back. My solicitor, at the time arranged the cashing in of the policy's and I paid in the check into my Woolwich account and then paid for the property. The firm of solicitors are no longer practicing, I did get the Legal Ombudsman to check old files from my old solicitors, but they couldn't find my old records either.