Looking Ahead
A parent moving in with you
Multi-generational living solves several problems at once and creates a set of financial questions that families almost never…
Looking Ahead
Ageing parents, wills, and the planning nobody wants to start.
20 articles · updated August 11, 2026 · page 2 of 2
Looking Ahead
The parent who will not accept help
Refusal is usually about autonomy rather than about money, and treating it as a financial argument is why the conversation keeps…
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A will written before the children arrived
A document drawn up for a household of two, ten years ago, is still the legally operative one until somebody changes it.
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Care paid in time rather than money
One sibling usually ends up providing most of the care, and the value of that is rarely counted by anyone, including the person…
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The medical wishes nobody has written down
Families are asked to make decisions on someone else's behalf under time pressure, usually with nothing recorded to guide them.
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Accounts nobody else can reach
A household's money increasingly lives behind passwords and two-factor codes, and none of that survives the person who set it up.
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Downsizing later than planned
Almost everyone intends to move somewhere smaller eventually, and the intention is usually acted on a decade after it would have…
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Naming a guardian for children who may be grown by then
The appointment is made when children are small and the document is rarely revisited, which means it ages badly in both directions.