{"id":6117,"date":"2022-05-17T14:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:26:14","slug":"unmarried-couples-over-70-at-risk-of-large-iht-bills-as-cohabiting-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/unmarried-couples-over-70-at-risk-of-large-iht-bills-as-cohabiting-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unmarried couples over 70 at risk of large IHT bills as cohabiting rises&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A younger generation not so bothered about being married, even with children, are now older; and many second-time-arounders\u2019 past experiences make them avoid knot-tying. This decomplicates some parts of the arrangement but can leave a heck of a mess behind when one dies. Making a will is a good start, as many don\u2019t.<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But if they\u2019re leaving even half of the house to the other half, this could be liable to IHT, unless they get married as there is none payable between spouses. So while money and tax-efficiency have rarely, since the days of Bridgerton (or Jane Austen if you don\u2019t have Netflix) , been reason enough to get married, they really should be if there\u2019s no reason not to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.professionaladviser.com\/news\/4049720\/unmarried-couples-risk-iht-bills-cohabiting-rises-continuum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A younger generation not so bothered about being married, even with children, are now older; and many second-time-arounders\u2019 past experiences make them avoid knot-tying. This decomplicates some parts of the arrangement but can leave a heck of a mess behind when one dies. Making a will is a good start, as many don\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1041,67,312,1042],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}