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Free care for the elderly
There seems to be many different types or care and free care. My 98-year-old relative is getting towards the end of his life. I understand care can be free in the last 12 months, but that is if there is a terminal illness.He is just very frail, living in a care home for the last 4 months, but presently in hospital.The…
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Newbie--any advice please
Currently going through a divorce process after 20 years--still both living in the same house, both kids adults and in their own places. My question is what am I responsible for financially--I know that the mortgage, council tax, power and so on is mandatory--I earn around 3 times more per month--both incomes go into a…
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Financial implications of moving in with elderly parent
Hi! I'd welcome any thoughts on the below. I’m considering moving back to my childhood home to live with my elderly mum and am looking for some initial advice on what financial implications I need to consider. In a nutshell, my widowed mum is 91 and I’m 67 and single. She is in good health, is mentally astute and has an…
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How do pension providers no how much tax to charge
My mother receives about £350 a week in state pension and about £50 a week from a private pension She has a K tax code from the private pension and is taxed at about 50% How do the personal pension providers know how much tax to charge? Do the DWP provide information to the private pension providers on what other income my…
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Mum struggling with upcoming retirement and depression
Hi all, I’m worried about my mum. She is 64 and seems (to me) to be struggling
with depression. She is due to retire this year and seems increasingly
demotivated in life. I think some of her lack of motivation stems from
uncertainty around retirement and the change it will bring to her routine, but
some of it seems bigger…
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Ex Partner Fraud
If anyone has any advice i would be very grateful. I met my ex 4 years ago and he said he had been in the armed forces for 30 years SBS. Fell in love as you do, moved into his house with my teenage children. My mum had passed away and I was left some inheritance and i was persuaded to spend money on his home to make it our…
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Tight-Fisted in law
I have a close family
and we tend to go away for weekends away with my daughter and son in
law who always invites his 78 year old mum (which is fine I don't
have a problem with) However, My husband and I have noticed she is
reluctant to pay for anything or even contribute to any of the meals
that we have whilst there. Now…
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Morphine withdrawal help
Hi, My mum had been on a very high morphine dose (180mg daily) for over 10 years to cope with severe pain. She has recently been told she must swap onto fentanyl, and was under the GP surgery's pharmacist. She gradually reduced down to 120 mg, but then was told to do a straight swap to the fentanyl. So effectively a sudden…
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Irish passport
My husband's UK passport expires later this year and he's entitled to an Irish passport because both his parents were Irish. However we're struggling to get any info for acquiring his mum's birth certificate and his dad left Ireland many, many years ago and joined the British Army. Somehow he joined the army with the birth…
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Accessing money tied up in mesher order equivalent
Following a divorce a few years ago, most of my assets are tied up in the family home through an agreement similar to a mesher order (I have a charge on the old family property, but am not co-owner). Is there any way I can access this value so that I can buy a house? I'm currently renting....
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What options do I have? I am very concerned about my future
Hi all I am writing on behalf on a friend who is worried and needs advise. I wasn't sure which board to put it on but hopefully this is the right one: "Hello, I currently live in a flat that I purchased around 6 years ago on the help to buy scheme. The flat is now worth about £50,000 less than what I got it for and I am…
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Separation advice
I’m tentatively making enquiries for my son. His partner, unmarried, has walked out of the home taking their two children, 4 and 6, stating she wants to live with a relative. They were together 7ish years. She moved into the flat he owned. Which was then sold and they brought a house. He has always paid all bills and the…
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Homeless daughter and granddaughter due to bad relationship
hi, my daughter and granddaughter are currently living at my place, ( we live in a two bed park home) after she was told to get my granddaughter away from the rented accommodation she live in after her partner had a psychotic episode. When it first happened two weeks ago she came up to stay for a week but had to go back to…
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Merged: Is he in contempt of the clean break order?
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LPA Attorneys?
I am about to do my LPA. I had planned to appoint my son and my daughter to act jointly and severally for both Finance and Health/welfare, but they have now fallen out and not spoken for several months. So I am wondering what to do. Daughter and granddaughter for Health and son for Finance? Or might there still be too many…
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School Library Fine
Sorry, I didn't know where else to put this. Hoping someone might be able to help...My 16 year old daughter has unbeknownst to us had three library books for longer than she should have and we have just received an invoice from the school for £50! That's a lot of money to us and I am reeling as there's no way I wouldn't…
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Advice and thoughts needed please divorce
Hi everyone. I would be very appreciative of any advice, views or
thoughts on my situation and whether it would be considered fair and meet the
criteria of ‘need’ by a judge. My wife and I are divorcing after 16 years. We have 3 children
(11,12 and 14). We have a house with £350,000 equity and around £60K in
savings and…
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NEED ADVICE ON LAZY SON
Hi Folks Our 23-year-old son started university a few years ago. After telling us all excuses and reasons under
the sun, he has recently admitted that he hasn't gone back to university since
September 24. He said the course is too
easy and that he seems to know more than the lecturers!! He also said he has started an…
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Advice if possible (forced sale)
Couple splitting, not married No kids House, joint ownership One wants to leave, the other doesn't want to sell but has agreed to a buy out House valued by three agents All gave same valuations Leaver paid deposit, buyer expected half of deposit They have now accepted, likely after advice and working out what the leaver…
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