My dad is in the process of getting divorced from my mum. He's nearly seventy. Mum is bleeding him dry and has managed to get a solicitor who is taking more than half their joint assets despite her never having worked a day in her life.
Anyway, he's met someone new since mum left him. He's really fallen for her and wants her to move in as soon as mum is out. Mum doesn't know about this other woman for what's it's worth, she has a new chap too. He told me today he plans to marry the new woman.
I'm really worried about him moving in with a woman he's known for less than six months and potentially losing a load more money further down the line if they get married and it doesn't work out. He no longer works so has no earning potential and mum is taking half his pension as well as everything else.
I suggested he see a solicitor to protect his money before rushing into financial commitments to his new woman. She has no money and was declared bankrupt several years ago. She currently lives off handouts from her brother. I haven't met her, I'm sure she's lovely but I'm concerned about my dad being daft.
He doesn't want to see a solicitor be used it's 'not romantic' and says he doesn't want to raise the conversations about money with her because it 'would be awkward.'
Is there any kind of online guide or book I could get him which would set out his rights, and hers, if they got married/ moved in together and might suggest a sensible way of him protecting his assets should it all go tits up? I'm not worried about her being left all his money in his will as he will be dead and won't need it - I'm worried about him being left in his seventies/eighties with barely any money.