I sold my Fathers house in London On and it closes the end of January. My Father is 95 and is in hospital. He has a will

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I am sorry to hear of this difficult situation.

Is your father mentally competent?

If he is not able to make decisions about his finances and every decision that you make must be in your father's best interest. You cannot at all consider the willl because he has not died. The will is confidential and not active at this point in time.

So you can only benefit him and not the beneficiaries or the estate.

So you can sell things in the house and there is no tax on that but the money has to go into an account for your father. You don't have to store all the items but it's just that the money has to be put away strictly for your father.

Do you see what I mean?

If your father is mentally competent to make decisions about finances and his care you cannot use the POA at all. The POA is for when he is no longer competent. The POA should have a provision in it telling you when you can trigger the POA. For example it may say two doctors have to decide that your father is no longer mentally competent. If the POA is triggered then your father cannot make decisions.

If the POA is not yet able to be triggered then all of this is up to your father and not at all up to you.

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Yes they can pick out what you tell them to pick out. The contents is not any different than selling the house. If you can legally sell the house then you can sell the contents.

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