Mom's House, Dad's House for Kids: Feeling at Home in One Home or Two

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Working in customer service, I'm often asked questions about what to do when a property owner dies. So I’m going to try to cover the main issues and answer common questions here.

Mum’s House Dad’s House – Item 295 - ELSA Support

A person may decide to repay the amount due to the local authority from another source, or a third party may elect to repay the amount due on behalf of the person. In either case, the local authority should be notified of the person’s/the third party’s intention in writing, and the local authority must relinquish the charge on the property on receipt of the full amount due.’ When considering deprivation of assets, the Local Authority will look at the motivation, the timing and foreseeability of needing care at the time the transaction/gift was made.

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For these past10 years she has been self funding via savings, pensions and rental from tenants in her property and therefore has not cost the state any money for this period of care. If you were living with the person as if you were married or in a civil partnership, you'll usually have priority over someone who wasn't in a relationship with them. If we bought a smaller house, would it be an option to buy in my brother's name who has poa or best to buy in her name? Is this possible with no mental capacity? As others have noted our vendors had to apply for probate but as it was a straight-forward case (which yours sounds like it should be too) they were able to run the probate process alongside the sale process. I think the probate took around 8-10 weeks and the house sale (from first going on the market to completion) took around four months, so probate was finalised well before we needed to exchange contracts. As buyers we had to accept a risk of delays if there were any complications in the probate process but it all went very smoothly.

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The same means test applies to any money on your Dad’s name, although he may be deemed to own half of any joint savings. When the money runs out the local authority have a legal obligation to care for your Dad. Alzheimer’s Society is really conscious of the unfair disadvantage people with dementia face with care costs and we campaign for social care reform. Here is some information on our Fix Dementia Care campaign if you would like to read further: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/get-involved/our-campaigns/fix-dementia-c…

Firstly it seems to me that it will be a long and difficult road if you decide to sue your sister for so many reasons. You should seek specialist legal advice before doing so, but on the facts presented it is difficult to see how she could be found personally liable. Transferring your father’s house while acting under an LPA would almost certainly be seen as deliberate deprivation, and it is hard to see how this would be in your father’s best interests. My dad has dementia and will soon need some care and I was wondering if there’s anything I can do to keep my dads property if I’ve been living there all of my life? (40 years)