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Experience has shown again that sellers should never cede their right to nominate the attorney handling their conveyancing. Equally important, they should not be pressured by family, emotional or other factors into allowing relatively unqualified attorneys to handle this important work.
The claim that all attorneys are au fé with conveyancing law is simply not true. Many who have focussed on other legal fields are out of touch.
All too often endless delays will ensue because a seller will decide to award the conveyancing task to a friend or relation who sometimes, to make matters more difficult, lives in another centre or “has moved to Blikkiesville or beyond.
In these circumstances, the appointed attorney will often delegate the conveyancing to another, causing further delays.
If the purchaser requests that another attorney be involved (usually because he has offered his services at a discount), it is possibly acceptable if on the Offer To Purchase documents it is clearly stipulated that the seller will still appoint the conveyancing attorney.
Sellers have to be reminded that the attorney’s duty is to protect the person by whom he is appointed – no matter who is actually paying for his services. It is important that the seller has the attorney “on his side” – and that that attorney is competent as he has to protect the seller’s assets.
Lanice Steward*
27 October 2009
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john05/02/2010
Conveyancing is the process by which the legal title is transferred from the seller to the buyer. This is generally a straight forward process but sloppy conveyancing practice makes the process unnecessarily cumbersome and protracted. The process detailed in this report is that followed by Solicitors and conveyancer at Phew!
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