My Dad married a woman twenty years younger, he will likely die before her. Does that mean I am unlikely to inherit?

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I think it does doesn’t it?

Well whilst this is true, if you have children do you not want them to inherit some of your money/savings? Yes I know my money might all be spent on care but if there’s anything left I would like it to go to my kids.
I always find it funny how posters on MN would do absolutely anything for their kids but at 18 they are adults and must be totally independent and not expect anything from you.

If your Dads health deteriorates in old age and he requires residential care then there won’t be anything to inherit.

No a life interest is just that, it can't be shared or inherited by anyone else.

Most life interests will be stated as terminating if the person with the life interest remarries ie they lose the right to continue living in the house, with or without the new spouse.

All I can say is and I have been around quite few mental battles entirely my own mind around my mother's will when she remarried a man in her 50s...anything of this sort of pondering in the UK is utterly useless....let them do what they want and you prepare your own old years with YOUR FINANCES in mind. Someone died and left you something - so be it, nobody did this - you are still your own person and did not spend years of heart aching for the love of someone whose whole life duty was to love YOU not second or third spouses and FAILED....

entirely in my own mind, never saying a word to anyone about it....

When MIL married a older man, they had a will drawn up that should he die first (he did), she benefited from his assets while she lived but on her death, they were to go to his children from his first marriage. As MIL ended up living a long time, and the step-fathers children were a fair bit older, they were already retired when she was likely to die, so by agreement, they amended the will, spliting the assets so she had kept some but most went to his children so they could benefit from them before they got too old and died!

This has ended up benfiting DH as when MIL did die, the assets were in turned passed down to him and his sister.

My father married a significantly younger woman. Not once in 20 years have I spent time thinking about inheritance...

I genuinely hope that my stepmother and younger half siblings will be well taken care of and get all of whatever there is.

Do you have children?

In this case she was party to the will, then latterly decided that she didn’t really want his children from his first marriage to inherit. Spiteful woman, who also had her own property and substantial cash at bank.

Relevance to OP and thread?

But could he override this with a new will, after marriage, leaving all of the house to her?

You must be new round here.

Except that intestacy isn’t what is being asked about

He could not change anything, because he would not own the property to be able to leave it to anyone else - he only has the right to live there, not to own, or sell, or will, it.

Ok I see , thanks.

If he has not made a will since he married, he will be intestate when he dies meaning a wife would inherit everything. if he wants you to have anything, he needs to make a will saying so.

I don’t agree with everyone saying none of your business. Is your DF savvy enough to have looked into this?

Because I find it hard to think why you would feel your father's second family deserve more than his first. It is sometimes easy to put ourselves to one side and rationalise it, but I would find that harder to do on behalf of my dc.

ETA relevance to thread being the general exploration of the mindset of parents when it comes to providing to dc, which is essentially what OP is interested in.

If they’re married she’ll automatically inherit unless he makes provision for you in his will. You can’t really ask!

No one has a crystal ball. Dementia care for example is extortionate.

Not as much as you’d think. They are entitled to 1/3 of the moveable assets split between all the children. Spouse gets the rest. And then they have to give up their right to anything that has been left in a will so you need to know all potential outcomes before taking that option.

however you do get 20 years to claim the right of a child

You could have a discussion- he may want you to inherit, but hasn’t thought the implications of marrying her.

Aye because the thread literally is about old men marrying younger women which I have experienced 🤣 where my dads money goes is nobody’s buisness but his and his wife’s 😊

This is the fear in my case too. I actually don’t mind that his wife has inherited from him but it does annoy me that my mums estate (indirectly) will also go to her children. But that was on my mum to sort out and she didn’t as she trusted my dad and he has chosen a new wife. Def best to never assume you’ll get anything and then anything you do is a surprise.

Remember Linda Bellingham? Look how that worked out!