stewamax wrote:bluedonkey wrote:Or situation reversed, Dad goes into care home, GF remains in the house as sole occupant
This would raise an interesting conundrum for the local authority if they wanted the house to be sold to provide care home fees.
They cannot normally do this while there is another occupant - particularly a spouse* - there and they have to lodge a charge on the house for when it is eventually sold. But a GF 'in residence' but with her own home .... hmmm.
* who may anyway own a share via common tenancy or own it jointly with the other spouse
Mum went into a home, Dad stayed at home and my sister moved in to look after him. When Dad died mum was still in the home.
The local authority checked to see if my sister had another home. As she didn't they couldn't force the sale of the property and didn't take a charge against it. If she had another property they would have done so.
This was about 5 or 6 years ago now, the regulations might have changed but I can'timagine they have.
One thing I have found, speaking to people in different areas about this subject, each authority applies the regulations in a different way. Some of which don't actually comply with the wording as a court would interpret it. Not that this is likely to be a concern in this case.