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Non married ex asking to see my accounts
Help! My non married ex solicitor is requesting to see my accounts. I do pay her child maintenance as asked as we have an 8yo boy together. But I am now out of work and am worried as I own a mortgaged house
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Axkid Move Car Seat
Hello all, Just wondering if any parents on MSE have an Axkid Move car seat. If so, what are your thoughts? Is it fiddly? is it nice and sturdy? I know it’s a plus rated seat and have done plenty of reading. I’m just missing some real world experience of how it fares once you have it.
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Updating an existing marriage contract/prenup? - please advise me if you can
Hi, Im not sure where to go with this one so hopefully someone can help me. My wife and I were married in South Africa 22 years ago. We were married with a form of prenup called "Married out of community of property with accruals" (which means everything we owned before the marriage remains ours but everything we gain…
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Care home take savings
Hello, I hope that someone can help please. I understand that people are allowed to keep so much in savings that can't be touched but! Can care homes or local government take all savings out of the bank after a person has died to repay fee's ? Thank you.
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New house before divorce?
Hi all, I am separated from my ex , and shortly starting divorce proceedings. The marital home is jointly mortgaged, I moved out with the children to a rented property. Ex will not let me contribute towards the mortgage as he sees it as 'his' property. Can I apply for a mortgage on a new property before the divorce is…
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Divorce and share of wealth.
A good friend of the family is getting divorced and they separated last week. Both are in their late 30's. They have a toddler aged under 5. The man is worried that his wife will take at least half of his wealth. The man is paid in excess of 50k per year and this was the case when they got married. The man bought a…
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Can an LPA Health & Welfare Application be Expedited [England]
I found some links for Scotland to urgently expedite an LPA for Health & Welfare but couldn't find anything similar for England. Our family member signed - with capacity - an LPA at the start of January before having a large [acute] bleed on the brain/stroke at the start of February. They now lack capacity due to the…
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Money Moral Dilemma: Should I tell my great aunt I couldn't cash her cheque?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... My mum's aunt very kindly sends me a cheque every Christmas. This year, I tried to deposit it via my banking app, but was told the date wasn't legible and to contact her to ask for another cheque or a bank transfer. I feel a bit awkward telling her this - should I just wait…
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Maintenance payments and inheritance
Hi, I’ve recently inherited some money from my late fathers estate, the amount is under the inheritance tax threshold, will this inheritance be calculated/included with my salary in my child maintenance payments for the next financial year? Thanks
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Paid £11,000 over 4 years turns out i'm not the father, what can I do?
Hi,Hopefully someone can help or advise.This is asked for a friend not me.My friend slept with someone, they had a baby, he didnt sign the birth certificate but people phoned him up to pay child support.So 4 years later he gets the balls to do a DNA test and it turns out its not his, its calculated its £11,000 he paid in…
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Marriage Tax Allowance Advice Please
Hello I am new here so I hope I have put this post in the right section! I contacted HMRC 2020 to arrange marriage tax allowance as I am a housewife and f/t mum. I ended up owing HMRC around £200. I may be returning to work over the coming months. I am conscious of the new tax year starting soon! So I was thinking of…
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Parental Alienation
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience of this and can offer some guidance if you've had a positive outcome via the courts. My husband is the victim of this and his ex-wife has stopped him having any access or contact whatsoever with his kids for 7 months and counting, citing various unfounded reasons and…
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Maternity
Morning all, Hope everyone is staying safe in these crazy times.. I was looking for advice really.. I'm due to go on maternity in July - my full pay will pay out until October when my last payment of my loan goes out. From October onwards I'm on SMP, has anyone contacted credit card companies and successfully been able to…
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Accepting money from parents to fund an annexe/larger house
Hi this has probably been covered before, but some advice needed please! My parents moved back from abroad about 5 years ago and currently live with my sibling. They do not own a property and have savings of around £80k (no other assets|) which they want to give to me (or my sibling) to fund an annexe/larger house as the…
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Power Of Attorney
Hi all, my mum wants me to set up a power of attorney on her behalf incase there comes a time where she is incabable of making financial decisions herself. Has anyone got any experience of doing this themselves online and if so which company did you use. Thanks in advance Mark
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Getting divorced is My wife entitled to my mothers house?
Hello everyone just wanted to ask if anyone can give me a generals answer to this before i speak to a lawyer We been married for 2 years and have a child and are getting divorced the house is not in my name but my mothers its her house we lived with her the mortgage was payed off well before the marriage and in that time…
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Can I claim child maintenance now?
My friend has tried to register here this morning but is still pending approval so I said I’ll post this for her. I separated from my ex husband last year. He refused to move out of the house. We have one child. We are now divorced, he is still in the house but we have agreed a consent order that he moves out within the…
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Car Seats
So the time has come for us to look for a new car seat for our 12 month old. Can't seem to find something that we both like though. We like isofix but the Joie Every Stages FX doesn't come with isofix when rear (or front) facing. We looked at another one but that doesn't seem to "grow" as much with the baby but is isofix…
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Giving Up a Timeshare Agreement for person with Dementia
I really hope someone can offer some solid advice on what I
should do. All of the following is in
Scotland. Context My mum has been deteriorating for the last few years and is
now in a nursing home with dementia. I have power of attorney and am dealing with
her affairs. One of the things I’m dealing with is my mum’s…
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think husband spending on dodgy or illegal stuff, how to trace bank transfer
Hello, I am new, joined this forum for advice, sorry if not
in the right section. Also sorry it's long! (this post might look familiar, I’m posting in a few forums around
the internet to try and get advice). I’ve discovered by chance husband has re-activated old
abandoned bank account. (we switched to an offset mortgage…
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