{"id":149107,"date":"2025-10-28T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149107\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:07:10","slug":"i-split-from-my-wife-12-years-ago-but-we-never-divorced-and-im-worried-i-cant-leave-the-family-farm-to-our-son-without-her-getting-a-share-what-should-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149107\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I split from my wife 12 years ago but we never divorced and I\u2019m worried I can\u2019t leave the family farm to our son without her getting a share. What should I do?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018Our son has spent 15 years working on the farm and has invested in it, so he deserves to inherit it. How do I make sure the farm doesn\u2019t get divided up? Should I transfer it to him now?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018If you die without making a will, your wife would be entitled to two-thirds of your estate, and your children to the remaining one third equally between them\u2019 Photo: Brian Farrell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8b031940-d9c5-45d5-8c79-cceb29253523.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">\u2018If you die without making a will, your wife would be entitled to two-thirds of your estate, and your children to the remaining one third equally between them\u2019 Photo: Brian Farrell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Query: Dear Mary Frances, I am in my late 60s and have been farming all my life on land that originally belonged to my parents. I married my wife in the early 1980s. Twelve years ago she moved out of the family home and has been living with a new partner since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We never divorced and haven\u2019t had any formal legal separation. We just agreed she would leave and I would continue farming. Things were tense for a while, but we have reached a kind of unspoken peace and only deal with each other through the children if needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Our son has spent 15 years working on the farm and has invested in it, so he deserves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,81745],"class_list":{"0":"post-149107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news-in-90-seconds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115450534017402709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}