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transfered mother in laws house to my wife and sister 15 years ago to avoid future care home costs
My mother in law was widowed 15 years ago. We felt it was prudent to transfer house ownership to my wife and her sister to avoid any future issues with future care home costs. In November 2025 my MIL was struggling to live on her own so was put into a care home. No chance of her returning to her house I'm afraid, so we…
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Cancelled Family Court Hearing
About two months ago, the Oxford Family Court cancelled my daughter's Two DayaFinal Childrens' Matters Hearing 48 hours beforehand because of a shortage of judges. My daughter still lost between £7,900 in legal fees because her barrister had already booked two days to be in court. I understand all my daughter is able to do…
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Implications of my mum giving or lending me money to buy my husband out of our house
Hello, my husband and I are separating and have agreed he will keep all our cash and I will keep the house, however, I need an additional £45,000 to do this. My mum has said she will give or lend me this amount, which ever is preferable. Can anyone in this forum advise if there will be any tax implications and how best to…
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Inherited premium bonds - can they be given away without it being seen as a deprivation of assets?
My elderly mother is 85 and has inherited £17,300 from my late father's premium bonds. Can my mother gift some of this money to her grandchildren or would this be looked on as a deprivation of assets if she needed to go into a care home in the future? At present she lives in her own home and there is no immediate sign that…
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Online LPA, timescales
I have just completed an online LPA for myself and having got all the signatures after a family gathering at Christmas sent it off for them to register. I am aware that if you don't return it within 42 days (from December 12th in my case) they refund your payment. I sent it tracked and it was delivered by Royal Mail on…
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LPA
Hi all, I have LPA for my brother who is currently in a nursing home self funding. I can act straight away. He inherited our mothers house - it is currently empty costing him upkeep as well as paying for his care. His savings are running out. He says he wants to go home but keeps making excuses about why he can't go 'just…
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Divorce - how is house equity charge back registered with Land Registry?
If going through a divorce and the house which is jointly owned is to be transferred to one party whilst the other party is to have a percentage of the equity retained for a period of time then how is this registered with Land Registry? Situation is... Divorce applied for. Conditional Order granted. Mediator has drawn up a…
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Legal right to estranged bothers estate?
For reasons stemming from the winding up of my late mothers estate, I am estranged from my sister and brother, it has now been about 6 years and we have not spoken in that time, it happened and was related to my giving up everything to become my mothers full-time live in carer as my mother had dementia, she passed away in…
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Long Johns?
I didn't know where to post this, so here goes. Back in the day, the oldies would wear thermal long johns, it was cold before we had climate change.Back in the 80s when I delivered parcels, I would wear my running tights under my trousers, I was only in my late 20s then, so it must have been cold.But now I am in my 60s, I…
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Inheritance Advice
Hello - I have just been told that I am going to be gifted £125,000 by a family member as inheritance. I'd like to get an idea of some of the best things I can do with the money at this stage in my life (I'm 33). My wife and I are in the process of potentially planning a move from the UK to Macau in China (where her family…
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How to approach aunt about potentially appointing a power of attorney
Long story but would be great for any advice. My aunt (uncle was blood relative) is 85 and lives alone. My mum, myself and my two sisters are close to aunt and always have been and go visit as often as we can but always at least once a week. Aunt has remaining blood relatives who don't bother to visit (live abroad or very…
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Large income gap, would you expect the lower earning partner to still work for money?
At what point does expecting the lower-earning partner to work and contribute financially start to become a bit… pointless, or even controlling? Say Partner A earns around £290K a year (desk job), while Partner B can realistically max out at about £31K even with all the overtime in the world (manual job). If you were…
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For those who don't find this time of year easy...
As I approach the first Christmas without a loved one, I know there are many others for whom this time of year is far from easy. So if you are feeling sad in the midst of others (seemingly) having a joyous and wonderful time, please be assured you are not alone. We often put much pressure on ourselves over the festive…
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At the other end of the rainbow....
So, having walked away from a very unpleasant relationship with little to show for it other than my freedom and peace of mind, one of the few things of value I do still possess are a few bits of diamond jewellery. I'm unlikely to ever wear them again - too many memories, but the money they're worth would really come in…
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Help please! - Severance of joint tenancy with unequal shares
Writing this for a friend, names have been changed! Does anyone have any experience of serving a notice of severance of joint tenancy when the split should not be 50/50? We want to state the desire to sever joint tenancy and ideally become tenants in common (as he refuses to remove himself from the deeds) with an unequal…
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Grown child living in home legal ramification for parent
I still want to be living alone on documents but my son is now living at my address and contributing to bills and repairs. What should I do to keep my status?
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Re-marriage trap - Court Order following Divorce help
Following my Divorce in 2000 and finally got my ex-husband in Court in 2008 to settle Finances. My ex-husband re-married prior to the Court Order but solicitor went ahead anyway and also appointed a Barrister! On the day in Court neither my solicitor or the Barrister (who I had met at Court on 2 previous occasions…
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Online divorce
I’m looking for advice around the online divorce via gov.uk. I want a divorce, sell the house etc but he doesn’t and he’s dragging his heels refusing to do anything. I’ve seen this is a way of a cheap divorce without fighting (I don’t want to fight, I just want to move on with what’s mine and he has what’s his) I spoke to…
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Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3
This thread is a continuation of The Mental Health thread “Here we can all be heard for a little while Part 2”. The previous thread can be found here- https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5320917 I started the original thread when I was lonely and suffering with mental health issues and was lucky to find a…
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Should we bother to Marry ?
Good evening, Both my partner and me are now divorced. Both retired, late 60s and have been together 12 years. Is there any benefit in getting married? Tax implications etc? think we're both a bit long in the tooth to re-marry. Thanks for your help,
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