Gold Diggers

Hmmm are Gold Diggers only female.

Hi Faye

I have never come across a male Gold Digger but I am sure there must be some.
Another conversation I heard a little while ago a man had recently lost his wife and she had left her half of the house and some other money to the children.
Two ladies were saying to him he could overide the wife's will and leave all the estate to another lady he had befriended.
The man said he did not want to do that and he thought there was no way he could have lawfully done is anyway.
He also said that would have been dishonest even if there was anyway he could legally overide the will.

Lawden This was all some years ago and I suspect that my signature was forged. I know that 2 of my siblings suddenly went on a spending spree and sort of assumed that something underhand had happened as my brother had already made a fuss about the selling of the house. Subsequently he said that I 'owed Mother' and when asked why he had no answer! When Mother died I was given a disclaimer to sign and did. Money causes so many problems I didn't want to be part of it.

I know a woman quite well who through friends met a man who eventually moved in with her. He owned two houses but they lived in her house. She eventually found he was having an affair and they broke up. He took her to court and got half her house and half her superannuation. While they had been living together he had unbeknown to her sold his houses. His brother is an accountant and she thinks he helped hide the assets. She had to sell her house and move to another area so she could pay him half her share. She thinks she was basically set up from the beginning.

Of course there are equally male and female people who are dishonest but labelling women gold diggers irritates me. I also find it unfair that people think just because they live with someone for a few years they are entitled to half of the other person"s home. The laws in Australia are getting ridiculous regarding splitting properties after break ups.

I know a gentleman who remarried at 70, she moved into his house and sold hers, gave her money to her children and subsequently subsidised them from her husband's bank account. After a year or two she claimed the marriage had broken down and departed with anything of value from the property and started proceedings to claim half his very generous pension, court found in her favour even though she had known this man only 3 years.

I think the worst situation happened when the lady wanted the man's daughter to leave after she had spent a lot money on the house on the house she jointly owned with her father. This was described in my thread at 19.01 on the 9th of June.
I am sure you are right that there are an equal number of male and female gold diggers.
I am only saying I have not heard of any male gold diggers personally except for the one you have just described.
Like you I am just one person and I will not come accross every situation in the world.

Lawden, The papers frequently have stories of women cheated out of their wealth by charming plausible men. The male of the species are usually called Con men rather than Gold Diggers

I do not know the full legal situation re properties held in trust for the children but I know a man who lost his wife and was made redundant about a year later.
He lived in Kent at the time.
Half the house was held in trust for the daughter and she was 9 at the time.
The father got another job 70 miles away from home and commuted for a time but he wanted to move nearer his work.
I think there must have been some clause in the trust deed allowing for the house to be sold and replaced with another one.
As it happened they moved at the time the daughter was moving to secondary school.
I am not sure if the daughter could have objected to the sale when she was about 11 but it may have caused problems if she had attained the age of 18 and her name was on the title to the house.

Martin