PIL have moved into a care home and are selling their house to cover ongoing costs. They need 24 hour nursing care, so the costs are high. We need to sell their house asap.
FIL has MS and MIL has dementia. FIL has 'capacity' and all their finances are in joint names. We have agreed the sale but the estate agent is now telling us that we need to have Power of Attorney over MIL's finances in order to sell the house. Obviously, we can't do this as she is unable to sign the forms.
(We are arranging POA for FIL, but that's a different story)
PIL are married. Can FIL really not take over his wife's financial affairs? What can we do?
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selling property for MIL, no Power of Attorney. What can we do?
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yellowflags · 16/11/2016 13:54
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