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Parent living rent free in childrens house
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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »On a different tack - because your mother wasnt left her own house (ie it being the norm for a husband to leave the joint marital home to his wife) then its probably been very hard for your mother to have to "start all over again" because of this unusual Will your father made. I would imagine that legally (as well as morally) your mother could put in a claim for her half of their house.
Just thinking it would be a nice thing if you and your siblings could help your mother out financially to help compensate her for the fact that she wasnt left "her" half of the house by your father?
At this post, I thought I had replied solely to the poster, so was somewhat surprised to see my retort posted.
I reckoned that it would be fairly obvious to whom it was aimed at so left it alone. Have now learnt best to preview posts prior to submitting.
I appreciate it didn't come across as particularly friendly, but neither did the post I was responding (privately) to.0
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