My Filipina wife and I are considering retiring to the Philippines. The intention is that we would buy a house (in my wife's name), spend 8 months @ year in the Philippines and the rest in the UK and France, and that I'd probably use a Balikbayan visa travelling. We do however have several major concerns:

* if my wife dies first, our understanding is that under Filipino law, my wife's assets are divided between the spouse (me) and our children;
* we also understand that because self and the kids are not Filipino
citizens we would be forced to sell the house asap;
* we've no idea what my legal position regarding staying in the Philippines would be.

In summary it appears that if wife died first, I could be say in my mid
seventies and forced to leave our home of a decade or more and all that
soon after her death.

Just wondered if anyone else had considered these issues?

Nigel