<prompt> Human: Mothers background:She is almost 60 years old, with no retirement due to the fact that she moved from another country to France, so she did not work enough in neither of the countries to get retirement money.In France, if you have no job and apparently not owning a property is also a requirement the state helps you by giving you approximately 450 euros per month. Of course, this amount would not be enough for her to live so she would need something else.She has a bit of money lets say around 40.000 euros and she wants to buy a house lets say one around 60.000-90.000 euros to afterwards be able to live from the rent of this house the 450 euros that the state would give her.The problem? She cannot apply for this help if she owns a house. So she wants to buy it, for which she will need to take a loan in the bank to pay the rest, and put the house at my name. She even thought of asking for the loan in my name but I will never agree to that.My background: I am almost 30 years old, currently doing a doctorate in France for two more years. My salary is low 1400 euros per month and after my contract is over, I have no job assured and there is a big chance that I leave France for at least 3 years to do a post-doctorate in another country. What I am trying to say is that if there is a problem with the payingtaxes or whatever comes with the house, I will not be able to take care about it due to my low income.I am not French nor English-speaker, so I apologize about my English so I am not familiar with the housing laws in France. Can someone give me a hand? I have several questions about this matter because I really dont know much about this things.Can having a property at my name screw me over? Will it be a problem if, lets say, in 5-10 years I want to buy a house in France or somewhere else by asking a loan in a bank?If by chance she would not be able to fully pay the loan in the bank, how could this affect me?Is there a way for me to make sure that it is her to pay the taxes? And will my normal taxes increase if I have a property?If I can help my mother to have a kind of retirement, I would do it, but I dont want to have problems in the future because of it, specially because eventually I would like to ask for a loan to buy my own house. And also because her economic situation is really unstable.  <response>: Without wishing to sound overly judgmental, there has to be a better way to do it. Basically shes asking you to help her commit welfare fraud or what we would call welfare fraud in the US. I can see why, and I know people who are otherwise good and reasonable who would consider the same thing, given the hoops a person has to jump through to get help...but I would try to find another way and another plan. I suspect it would wind up being a big mess that you both would regret. 