Will not called for after death?

SmlSave

Hi nad1611.

It sounds like your Dad wouldn't have needed Probate for anything - the banks should have told him if he did.

When he passes away - hopefully not for a long time - you'll probably just have to send a copy of your mother's Death Certificate off to the Probate Registry (assuming your Dad's estate will need Probate) and maybe to the Land Regsitry/banks if there are any accounts with your Mum's name still on there.

I don't think that you have anything to worry about as it sounds like a simple estate where everything went to your Dad.

RAS

nad

We had a similiar case, when it became apparent after the death of the second spouse that the first spouse's will have never been to probate/administered.

It turned out that nearly everything was in joint names, and the little not included in this was so small that probate was not neccessary when the first spouse died. It had no impact on the estate of the second spouse.

nad1611

Thanks smlsave and RAS for both of your comments. As you say it does seem that actually as luck would have it not only would any aditional assets in her name have been very small, we believe they either had one bank account in her name everything else in his as she never worked. I think him not applying for probate was as said more luck than judgement. This way we probably won't even need to mention it to him, which is good, because again as said he does get a bit stressed with anything to do with anything that he would see as complicated.

Thanks again it's put my mind at rest.