From: john boyle 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: ELDERLY FATHER - HOW MUCH IS HE WORTH TO YOU ?
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 01:32:38 +0100

In message , oldman@loot.com 
writes
>Hi
>
>I have an elderly father who lives alone in a house which is now worth
>500k. I am his only living relative.  He has a younger woman
>girlfriend but he tells me has no intention of getting married to her.
>How can I be sure he leaves me the house in his will ?
>What if he leaves everything to her ?
>Should I force him to write a new will and then poison him ?

No, you'll end up paying too much IHT.

Get him to marry her, then get him to write a will leaving the 
equivalent of the Nil Rate Band to a trust of which you are the ultimate 
beneficiary but leaving all actual assets to her, but allowing the trust 
to accept an IOU from her in lieu of the NRB bequest, then poison him, 
then fraudulently draw up her will leaving everything to you, then 
poison her. This will save you £263000 x 40% in IHT (if you kill him 
this tax year). You cannot offset the cost of the poison unless you hide 
them under 'executor's expenses'.
-- 
John Boyle