So, is this his mum or his step mum?

(Bazongaloid, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:06, 1 reply)

It's...
..his actual blood mother. Does this make it worse?
(Mediumsizedbear is trying to be littler., Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:13, closed)

Well, yes
Were his parents divorced? If not, why is she not taking over the running of the farm? But if they are, why not just wind up the business?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:32, closed)

Were his parents divorced? Well yes.....
...but divorced 'Irish style'. The father simply walked out 10 years ago. No legal arrangement was made, that would be sensible and we can't be having with that. The father lives on the farm, the mother lives in a house in the town. Now we have a stand-off. My husband knows the farm has to be wound up responsibly and sold, this will take a lot of work and about 6 months to complete. (That's if anything will sell in this fog-sodden, ridiculous country at this stage.)

BUT the mother owns 50% of the farm, the father owns 50% of her house. Neither will sign over anything to the other, neither can sell anything without the other's signature.

The father will probably not agree to the farm being wound up anyway, so the question of selling is probably moot.

It's their generation's problem and we're being forced to pay for it and to sort it out for them as they're too juvenile to come to an agreement themselves.
(Mediumsizedbear is trying to be littler., Fri 5 Mar 2010, 16:22, closed)

Sorry, I thought the father was dead
I got the wrong idea from your first line, obviously with them both being alive and not agreeing this makes everything far more complicated
(Bazongaloid, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 21:38, closed)