As I understand it, as long as we stay British we can opt for British style wills and inheritance laws but it's academic as OH and I are 2 years apart, own the house equally and there's only Possum to inherit. I do sympathise about your situation tho @Busy-Lizzie and @tuikowhai34.
Sunny again but flipping cold at dawn and not getting too excited this pm. Had a crampy night so am slow to get going this morning but will be weeding the beds I watered yesterday and also soaking the hardboard laid on the newly scalped strip in the potager which will become the dahlia bed. Have to wait for the new netting to arrive so we can keep the chooks off and also for nights to warm up a bit.
Lamb shoulder for us tonight @Dovefromabove with some new potatoes from Noirmoutier - grown with seaweed so like Jerseys.
Have a lovely day everyone and stay safe. Hugs to all with health or family or other worries.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Do read this every day but don't often come on here. All this talk of food; I have a large pot in the oven with 8 pork steaks, onion, garlic, peppers, chorizo and the rinsed out contents of a tomato ketchup bottle! There is only me so 1 steak for lunch with roast potatoes and mashed swede with black pepper and clotted cream and the rest frozen in individual containers.
Oooh @Loraine3 ... hello I'm on my own for lunch as OH is at work and we won't be eating until much later ... and that sounds delicious ... much nice (and better for me) than a cuppa soup ... If I sent a carrier pigeon your way could I have a portion ... pretty please?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We'll be consulting a notaire sooner or later @Busy-Lizzie to make sure we go the most effective route. We did try soon after moving here but walked out after being kept waiting over half an hour while the notaire ran back and forth between her office and the printer and a very loud telephone conversation and never a nod to us to say hello or apologise or explain the delay. I told her assistant I thought that was rude and unacceptable and she was shocked that anyone would criticise a notaire for such behaviour.
Still cold out there but OK out of the wind which seems to be dropping anyway. Lots of busy raptors swooping on critters in the paddock and doing territorial stuff too. There's also an echo effect as the south west corner hoopoe tells the north west corner hoopoe where his territory stops.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
@Obelixx The laws changed a bit in 2015 so that the remaining spouse could apply the inheritance law of their country, and leave it to whom they wish. And yes, inheritance tax is 60% but Possum "should" be exempt but I would sincerely re-check the news laws and where she/you stand....even if you apply British Inheritance Law.
We made a Will when we built this house, long before my husband's death (it saves on solicitor's fees), so I can sell, but his 50% and half of my 50% or thereabouts goes directly to children which leaves s...d all to rehouse unless children waiver as in @Busy-Lizzie 's case. (They still will get it in the end). If you have an Assurance Vie Bank Account (not the same as Life Insurance in the UK), you can save your inheritors some money....I won' t go into detail, but it's worth looking into.
When I explained this to my very good English friend, I had to literally scrape her off the floor!! You just wouldn't believe it that your house is not really yours when one of you dies! ...'cept you get to live in it.
BTW @Dovefromabove I am a mint sauce with my lamb person, but I made Tzatziki yesterday for a dish and it was a shame not to finish it! I did add extra mint, though! With green beans persillade etc.
When you are feeling really hacked off, go and garden. I was doing a little weeding, in the horizontal position, as is my wont, when I noticed a Robin very close by, I picked up a worm and held it out to him, he sidled up and took it from my hand, for a while all my problems disappeared.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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Sunny again but flipping cold at dawn and not getting too excited this pm. Had a crampy night so am slow to get going this morning but will be weeding the beds I watered yesterday and also soaking the hardboard laid on the newly scalped strip in the potager which will become the dahlia bed. Have to wait for the new netting to arrive so we can keep the chooks off and also for nights to warm up a bit.
Lamb shoulder for us tonight @Dovefromabove with some new potatoes from Noirmoutier - grown with seaweed so like Jerseys.
Have a lovely day everyone and stay safe. Hugs to all with health or family or other worries.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Still cold out there but OK out of the wind which seems to be dropping anyway. Lots of busy raptors swooping on critters in the paddock and doing territorial stuff too. There's also an echo effect as the south west corner hoopoe tells the north west corner hoopoe where his territory stops.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We made a Will when we built this house, long before my husband's death (it saves on solicitor's fees), so I can sell, but his 50% and half of my 50% or thereabouts goes directly to children which leaves s...d all to rehouse unless children waiver as in @Busy-Lizzie 's case. (They still will get it in the end). If you have an Assurance Vie Bank Account (not the same as Life Insurance in the UK), you can save your inheritors some money....I won' t go into detail, but it's worth looking into.
When I explained this to my very good English friend, I had to literally scrape her off the floor!! You just wouldn't believe it that your house is not really yours when one of you dies! ...'cept you get to live in it.
BTW @Dovefromabove I am a mint sauce with my lamb person, but I made Tzatziki yesterday for a dish and it was a shame not to finish it! I did add extra mint, though! With green beans persillade etc.
I was doing a little weeding, in the horizontal position, as is my wont, when I noticed a Robin very close by, I picked up a worm and held it out to him, he sidled up and took it from my hand, for a while all my problems disappeared.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border