Hi all
My mum has recently gone into a nursing home (end stage dementia & bed ridden). Currently she is CHC funded, there are no assets to pay fees or contribute if CHC was withdrawn and the Local Authority took over (just her pension). Yesterday the home handed me a form & asked me to return it signed & witnessed next time I'm there. I looked at it & it's a deed making me a guarantor jointly & severally liable with mum for any unpaid fees. There's no way either my mum or I could pay them & I'm very worried about signing a document saying I agree to be liable. Mum has a financial LPA & I'm her representative but this is asking me to be personally liable
Is this just a formality that everyone signs?
Can I refuse (without making mum have to leave the home)?
Thanks
My mum has recently gone into a nursing home (end stage dementia & bed ridden). Currently she is CHC funded, there are no assets to pay fees or contribute if CHC was withdrawn and the Local Authority took over (just her pension). Yesterday the home handed me a form & asked me to return it signed & witnessed next time I'm there. I looked at it & it's a deed making me a guarantor jointly & severally liable with mum for any unpaid fees. There's no way either my mum or I could pay them & I'm very worried about signing a document saying I agree to be liable. Mum has a financial LPA & I'm her representative but this is asking me to be personally liable
Is this just a formality that everyone signs?
Can I refuse (without making mum have to leave the home)?
Thanks