Hi all,
I have two parents with dementia. They seperated in 2005 but never divorced.
My mum has early stage dementia and gave me Power of Attorny for health and finance for when the time comes. She has full ownership of the family house. It was bought during the marriage but signed over to her after dad left her. She also has decent savings.
My father has late stage Alzheimers and always refused to give me legal powers to manage his health and financial decisions when the time came. He lives in his now deceased girlfriend's property and has no assets of his own apart from a half share of a pension. His home is now owned by her relatives.
It has reached crisis point and he is going into respite care for two weeks. The local authority is considering putting in an order to control his finances as he may need to go into a residential home.
My concern: Will dad's local authority have a claim on mum's assets as they are not divorced to help cover the costs. Even thought they cant force the sale of her property and make her homeless, could dad's local authority have a future 50% claim on her assets when her home is sold or she dies to cover the back costs of funding dad's residential care.
We are expecting my mum also to need residential care shortly and hoped her assets would cover this. She doesnt want to give dad any money for understandable reasons. But should we expecting a bill from dad's local authority for half share... and when might it come... at the sale of the family home, when her estate is distributed after her death but at that point there will be nothing left. So could they come back clawing money from the children?
Where do I get give advice, this is all so new to me. Do I go to a family law lawyer, a financial advisor or is there an organization that can advise me?
Thank you all
Anna
I have two parents with dementia. They seperated in 2005 but never divorced.
My mum has early stage dementia and gave me Power of Attorny for health and finance for when the time comes. She has full ownership of the family house. It was bought during the marriage but signed over to her after dad left her. She also has decent savings.
My father has late stage Alzheimers and always refused to give me legal powers to manage his health and financial decisions when the time came. He lives in his now deceased girlfriend's property and has no assets of his own apart from a half share of a pension. His home is now owned by her relatives.
It has reached crisis point and he is going into respite care for two weeks. The local authority is considering putting in an order to control his finances as he may need to go into a residential home.
My concern: Will dad's local authority have a claim on mum's assets as they are not divorced to help cover the costs. Even thought they cant force the sale of her property and make her homeless, could dad's local authority have a future 50% claim on her assets when her home is sold or she dies to cover the back costs of funding dad's residential care.
We are expecting my mum also to need residential care shortly and hoped her assets would cover this. She doesnt want to give dad any money for understandable reasons. But should we expecting a bill from dad's local authority for half share... and when might it come... at the sale of the family home, when her estate is distributed after her death but at that point there will be nothing left. So could they come back clawing money from the children?
Where do I get give advice, this is all so new to me. Do I go to a family law lawyer, a financial advisor or is there an organization that can advise me?
Thank you all
Anna
