Late Parents Divorce Financial Settlement

magpie

Manxman_in_exile said:

Forgive my ignorance everybody, but how would the half brother be able to establish any sort of claim against the property if they were only born 20 years after the divorce - a divorce in which the OP's mum had the house transferred to her so the father no longer had an interest?  Or is a copy of the financial settlement needed to prove that the house was in fact 100% transferred to mum?

(Surely this is a scenario that must happen quite frequently?  It only takes a - perhaps - bitter and vindictive former spouse to invent a spurious interest in a former marital home to wreak all manner of havoc - up to 40 years later!)

Hi, I find this quite incredulous also. Bitter and vindictive are just two of the adjectives that would describe my late father. The others would get me banned from the forum. It would come as no surprise if it was his intention to wreak havoc