A London financier lost his £2.6 million claim to his mother's Chelsea home

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Living in a family-owned property for decades does not necessarily give someone a legal claim to ownership, even when there have been discussions about inheritance. That distinction became central to a dispute involving London financier Andrew Grijns and his 80-year-old mother, Janice Grijns, over a four-bedroom townhouse in Chelsea. Andrew had lived in the property for more than 20 years, but after his father's death, the relationship between mother and son deteriorated. He eventually went to court seeking two-thirds of the house's value, around £2.6 million, as reported by The Independent.

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