Hi Somersoft members,
My cousin has just gotten herself into a difficult situation and hopefully we can find some advices how to deal with this. She bought a manicure business 4 months ago through an oral agreement and there were couple of months delay in payment as cousin was running short of money. As a result, the old owner (very rude old lady) got really angry, harassed her in front of people, even threatening that she would open a new shop and take away all my cousin's customers.
Worst thing happened, cousin just found out a few days ago the new shop will start opening in a month being located couple minutes away from us. We immediately went to a solicitor and got advised that even though my cousin doesn't have the sale contract, law still apply to prevent the old owner opening a new shop within 4kms. However, we need to find out whether the business is actually in her name, if she use someone else name to open the shop there is little chance for us to win the case. My cousin is not in the right state of mind as she has invested so much in the business and her business would be affected a lot if it opens next month.
My cousin has just gotten herself into a difficult situation and hopefully we can find some advices how to deal with this. She bought a manicure business 4 months ago through an oral agreement and there were couple of months delay in payment as cousin was running short of money. As a result, the old owner (very rude old lady) got really angry, harassed her in front of people, even threatening that she would open a new shop and take away all my cousin's customers.
Worst thing happened, cousin just found out a few days ago the new shop will start opening in a month being located couple minutes away from us. We immediately went to a solicitor and got advised that even though my cousin doesn't have the sale contract, law still apply to prevent the old owner opening a new shop within 4kms. However, we need to find out whether the business is actually in her name, if she use someone else name to open the shop there is little chance for us to win the case. My cousin is not in the right state of mind as she has invested so much in the business and her business would be affected a lot if it opens next month.