Can anyone give me some advice please
My mother has owned her house since 1951 and married my father six years later but his name has never been on the title deeds (although of course he has contributed all over the years).
The current value of the house is approx £250,000 but it could be a bit more than that, getting close to the IHT threshold I know. They have a retirement investment of around £25,000 but that is in my father's name.
I am an only child and my mother wants me to inherit the house eventually and so in her will she has left the house to my father for his lifetime and then to me afterwards.
Is that the best way of doing things? My mother is 11 years older than my father and now is approaching 90. They are both in pretty good health. My father seems to be happy with the will and I would naturally help him if my mother dies first as they live close to me.
Should I be asking her to put both my father and my names on the deeds or just mine or is there another way?