inheritance money and soon to be ex partner

scoots1958
scoots1958 Posts: 3 Newbie
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I have recently lost my father and have since found out my partner of 11 yrs has been cheating on me. My sister and myself are joint executors of my fathers estate and I need to know if my partner is entitled to part or half my fathers money he has left myself and the rest of my brothers and sister . If she is able to claim my money then can I give ALL of my money without having received it (by relinquishing all rights to it) to my sister? the money each of us 4 will get is probably between £15,000 and £30,000 each. I do not want my partner to get my inheritance and would rather give it away to my sister than to let her have it.
We will seperate over this
Many thanks in advance

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  • WillowCat
    WillowCat Posts: 974 Forumite
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    You say 'partner'. Are you married?

    If not, they have no claim over the money.

    If you are, it's more complex.
  • Keep_pedalling
    Keep_pedalling Posts: 16,591 Forumite
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    edited 29 November 2017 at 12:10AM
    If you are married or in a civil partnership, then your inheritance would be included in any calculation of a financial settlement and giving it away won’t help as that would be considered a deliberate deprivation of assets.

    If you are simply living together then no she can’t have any of it, although if you have children it could increase the amount of child maintenance you might have to pay assuming she had custardy.
  • Ivrytwr3
    Ivrytwr3 Posts: 6,282 Forumite
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    Keep_pedalling wrote: »
    If you are simply living together then no she can’t have any of it, although if you have children it could increase the amount of child maintenance you might have to pay assuming she had custardy.

    Yes, this isn't a trifling matter, i am sorry to here you are going to have to dessert him. But donut fret about it as i am sure you will meet someone you can crust.

    (so sorry, i am not making light of the OPs terrible situation, but i could not resist - custardy/custody) :D

    No advice aside from speak to a solicitor if married.
  • haras_nosirrah
    haras_nosirrah Posts: 2,208 Forumite
    married - yes,
    not married - no
    I am a Mortgage Adviser
    You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.
  • scoots1958
    scoots1958 Posts: 3 Newbie
    Thank you everybody who replied to this thread . I am NOT married to my partner and NO we do not have any children between us. This has given me a lot of piece of mind .Thank you all again !!!
    Pete
  • scoots1958
    scoots1958 Posts: 3 Newbie
    I cannot work out how to post in the thanks part of this thread sorry.This only leaves the mortgage (joint) and my pension to sort out now. she can have half of both of these if she go`s for them but so glad my dads money cannot be included.
  • TBagpuss
    TBagpuss Posts: 11,199 Forumite
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    As you are not married, she won't have any claim against your pension.
    She (and you) only has a claim against assets which are held in your joint names or (with more difficulty) against assets in the name of one of you, where the other has contributed and there was a joint intention that the asset would be held jointly.

    This does mean that any money which is paid into any joint account is up for grabs, so make sure that you have a separate account and put your inheritance there, not in any joint account.
    All posts are my personal opinion, not formal advice Always get proper, professional advice (particularly about anything legal!)
  • krlyr
    krlyr Posts: 5,993 Forumite
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    scoots1958 wrote: »
    I cannot work out how to post in the thanks part of this thread sorry.This only leaves the mortgage (joint) and my pension to sort out now. she can have half of both of these if she go`s for them but so glad my dads money cannot be included.

    Pension is yours. Joint mortgage is your joint liability, you're both responsible for payments (not 50:50 but you're just both financially liable to make the payments). House ownership differs to mortgage - you can be on the deeds without being on the mortgage, or be on the mortgage without being on the deeds. You need to check your deeds to see if you're joint tenants (own half each) or tenants in common (specified amounts of ownership - often a percentage but sometimes there can be deeds of trust, e.g. X gets their £20,000 deposit back and Y gets the rest of the equity) to see what she's entitled to from the house.
  • Keep_pedalling
    Keep_pedalling Posts: 16,591 Forumite
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    If you have a will don’t forget to make a new one, and if you don’t have one sort one anyway.
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