‘I’m thinking of divorcing my husband of 50 years because he won’t leave our youngest son anything in his will’

Our eldest son is getting the farm and the house – but the younger son lives with us and I don’t want him to end up homeless. If I got divorced maybe I could get the house and leave it to him. Are there other options?

Mary Frances Fahy

Query: Dear Mary Frances, I’ve been married to a good man for over 50 years. We live in the midlands on a decent-sized farm that came from his family and we have three children.

I never thought the farm would come to divide us, after it provided a good income for us and helped us send our children to third-level education.