Inheritance of rubbish !!

Errata

Family member recently made £200 on a house clearance, much to their amazement as they'd taken what they wanted and believed what was left was rubbish. The bill from the house clearnance firm turned into a cheque !

Lorian

Where I live the standard size skip (6.5 cubic M) is around £140 inc VAT for a day or up to a week at same cost. Arounf £90 for the 4.5.

Poppy9

We sold our parents electrical goods like FF, cooker etc. and gave the money to MacMilllan nurses as they had been so wonderful when my mother was ill.

Floss

Poppy9 wrote: »

....When my father died we had to empty the house so the 4 of us met there for a day and went through everything and if someone wanted something we just asked for it and collectively decided what to do with the stuff left......

We did a similar thing when clearing my mum's home......4-bed detached with garage & loft full of 30 years of stuff.....

2 skips, 1 load of stuff to auction, 1 hospice-shop collection & about 15 car-loads of deliveries to hospice shops took care of what we didn't want.

Cost of skips came out of the estate, cheque from auction went back into the final total.

madeinchina

None of the furniture or rubbish is under my partners control, which he is not allowed to touch or move; every personal possession has been left to his sister, so there is no chance of offsetting anything as regards house clearance. We are potentially looking at the sister cherry picking the best, and then expecting him to forfeit half the cost to clear what is not wanted out.

skintchick

madeinchina wrote: »

None of the furniture or rubbish is under my partners control, which he is not allowed to touch or move; every personal possession has been left to his sister, so there is no chance of offsetting anything as regards house clearance. We are potentially looking at the sister cherry picking the best, and then expecting him to forfeit half the cost to clear what is not wanted out.

In which case tell her that everything is hers and it is therefore up to her to dispose of what she doesn;t want.

Does it have to be a big fight?

madeinchina

skintchick wrote: »

In which case tell her that everything is hers and it is therefore up to her to dispose of what she doesn;t want.

Does it have to be a big fight?

There is no big fight. I never said that they had fallen out over it. I just wanted to know that my way of thinking was correct, from a legal standpoint.

It doesn't bug him that she got all the possessions etc... he's perfectly happy, its that she mentioned that the "estate" ie. both of them, could pay to dispose of what was not wanted that felt like she was making the best for herself.

Emmzi

I think people might assume that because of they could have a reasonable conversation and agree what seemed fair between them, the law needn't come into it?

Errata

it was all left solely to her

Her inheritance, her problem. Might be worth going through all the old magazines for hidden money !

madeinchina

Emmzi wrote: »

I think people might assume that because of they could have a reasonable conversation and agree what seemed fair between them, the law needn't come into it?

Fair point.

Sometimes the law is not the same the moral high ground; but its always better to know that you have both before starting a negotiation.