so Jade Goody has months to live

[liahgen]

How very very tragic,

poor girl, and those poor little boys.

its terribly sad - cancer is just evil and i hope we find a cure for it very soon.

time they've known each other is irelevant. Once you're married the spouse has entitlements.

My cousin's wife left him after three months marriage and still she was entitled to half of everything he owned.

I hope that someone is advising her well about ringfencing her money for her boys.
I can't bear the thought if her putting herself through all of this in the last few months of her life to help provide for her children only for them not to fully profit from it...
The thing that we all forget is that upon our deaths our husbands or partners very often remarry and the financial provisions that you have made/left for your children that he is rightly (?) in charge of can become part of a future divorce settlement. I know that this might sound unlikely or convoluted but I've seen it happen

She needs to have very calm and non emotive advice and I hope she's getting it.

marcoloni - still would be entitled to far biggr claim if married though. In such circumstances DH would def advise against marriage. No financial benefit from being married it this case apparently. IHT dealt with elsewhere.

i think, well have read, that the money is already in trust for the boys so its not even jades at the mo.

I am assuming she will be getting some decent legal advce - at least I hope she is.

I think legally it's very shaky ground - you ca't, for example, sign your house over to your children to avoid inheritance tax, because if you die within seven years of doing so then the IT applies. Not sure if the same would apply re money.

ilovemydog...tbh I think maybe jades comment about a colostomy bag were initial concerns and sometimes when going through grief people say "silly" things...

My ds was born with a life threatening bowel disorder. His 1st op was successful initially but over night developed enterocolitus, thus needed a stoma fitted (colostomy bag) he was only 5 weeks old and I honestly felt my life had ended. I felt sad for him and at the moment didn;t know what future he had BUT now looking back I wasn't thinking straight.

I was sleep deprived,depressed and didn';t se the whole picture..NOW I know it was the right decision, ffs it saved his life. It was only short term and he is thriving now...

God knows how someone in Jades situation is tthinking,I guess even the little things seem huge iykwim...I guess she has another outlook now .

BTW,I love jade and feel very sad atm. Wish her and her boys, mum and Jack happiness for this time together...xx

There are some misnomers about the legal situation re: money here, some, rather worryingly, from lawyers! This is all by the by anyway - I think the main thing is that it is desperately tragic, but seeing as someone has brought up the issue of money:

Yes, any marriage would nullify her will and she would be intestate should she die without making a will after that, but intestacy laws in any case slightly favour the children: the spouse gets the first £125,000 of the estate and a life interest on half (not the same as half by any means) and the kids get half.

But I strongly imagine that she would remake her will after marriage and could decide not to leave Jack a penny if she so chose. He has no automatic right to any because people can leave their estates to whosoever they choose; however, he would be in a strong position to sue the estate for a share under a particular act (as, incidentally, could her mother). But the courts would take into account the circumstances, length of marriage/relationship etc. So I really wouldn't worry about her kids not getting the money. I'd be surprised if she let that happen but I am sure she would also like Jack to be provided for. Why not? Poor girl. I hope she has a lovely wedding.

She could also have state in her will that it was made "in contemplation of [her] marriage to Jack Tweedy" in which case it would not be revoked. If she left him out of her will, he would be able to claim but would have to show he expected financial support from her. Does he actually work or is he mainly supported by her income?

Poor, poor woman going through this. I do hope her marriage brings her happiness and she can spend her remaining weeks / months in peace.

maddness that she is still here and people already are a bit about money she will/won't leave to jack, her mother or the dk's....

Not really our business is it..?

Its really sad for anyone to die of cancer, especially a young woman with 2 children.

I read something today apparently said by Max Clifford when he was asked about the apparent filming of Jades eventaul death in her 'fly on the wall' documentary. He apparently said,

'Jade has lived on reality TV and it looks like she will die on reality TV.'

How sad is that.......... I think good on her for publisising her fight if its going to mean a secure finatial future for her kids then great plus it is pushing more and more women into having regular smears and pusing people to donate to charitys to help find the cure.....

Good on you Jade and god bless you and your family. x