'My partner's children have hinted at selling the house after he dies. Does 'life interest' protect me or can they force a sale?'
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Query: My partner and I bought a house together a few years ago. We're not married, and between us we have children from previous relationships.
To try and keep things fair, we bought the house as tenants in common, and we both made wills leaving our share of the property to our own children.
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