Who owns this house?
Edit: Thanks everyone I’m showing him your answers tonight after work!
Hello! Bear with me as I’m not Irish but live in Dublin for 6 years and think my (Irish) husband is ignoring reality. My husband was born to an unwed mother back in the days when he was at risk of being taken in by The Church. His grandparents essentially took him on as an 8th child. They both died within months of each other when he was around 6. According to the girls in the family (his mam and 2 aunts), the house was always meant to be his. Now there’s 4 brothers but one is deceased leaving 3. My husband doesn’t speak to 2 of them and has very little interaction with the other. We live in the house, with his mother and unmarried aunt who will need minding for the remainder of her life. She’s not able for living alone and never has been. We pay everything to do with the home including repairs and upgrades etc. my husband wants to build an addition out the back garden for us to have space of our own. I think this is craziness as we don’t own the house? He says it’ll all be fine in the end and that attitude, to me, is bollocks. Legal is legal and we could lose tens of thousands of euro doing it this way. Am I wrong? I know so little about Irish inheritance law. I read alot here, so can answer there was no will, my Mil payed off the mortgage with money given to her by my husband years ago. She’s the eldest so would naturally be the executor and that’s agreed upon by the whole family. All the aunts and the wife of the brother who passed have agreed to give their share to my husband. The 3 uncles are the wild card. We can well afford a solicitor but I’m having trouble convincing him one is even needed? It feels like he’s leaving it to the fairies to sort?