Contesting a Will

haveiacase

OK , as i see it my options are thus :

Provide , or at least contribute , and let my daughters contest..and at the same time applky to have the grant of probate stopped...

poet123

You cannot be for real.

Fire_Fox

haveiacase wrote: »

I have been doing some reading and my grounds i can discuss at a later date with my solicitor , and in the meantime i can stop the estate being dsitributed etc....

yes it sounds a bit harsh , but i firmly believe my husband would want his kids to share the house proceeds

So your husband wouldn't have been too busy grieving for his deceased mother and supporting his grieving nieces/ nephews to be bothered with the will at the wake and in the days following? Wow.

You cannot contest the will, there are no MY grounds, you are not a blood relative or a dependent, you have no reason to believe you should have been a beneficiary. Why bother posting if you are going to ignore the fact that not one single person thinks you have a leg to stand on legally?

haveiacase

but my daughters could contest...thats my point

Fire_Fox

haveiacase wrote: »

but my daughters could contest...thats my point

Could they? Would they? Why? Based on what?

haveiacase

based on the fact they should have been accounted for , and my mil might not have been mentally capable of understanding what she was doing!

Mojisola

haveiacase wrote: »

but my daughters could contest...thats my point

You can't contest a will on the basis of not liking the way the deceased arranged their estate!

haveiacase

no , but based on beng mentally impaired....

Savvy_Sue

If you have bottomless pockets, by all means see a solicitor and see if you can pay for your children to challenge this will. In the process you will alienate and upset your nephew and niece, who were brought up by this lady and who are presumably grieving for her. And so far no-one has indicated that you have even the proverbial snowball's chance of success.

You may not think this is fair. Your children may not think this is fair, but they are grown ups not toddlers, and one of the best lessons we can teach our children in that in-between stage is that life is NOT fair. What matters is how we deal with things we don't go the way we want / expect / think would be fair. You (and they) can expend a deal of money and emotional energy, but it would IMO be far better to act with dignity and restraint and accept that the grandmother they saw once a year chose not to include them in her will. End of.

Mojisola

If you can be objective for a moment - stand back and look at the facts -

a woman takes on her grandchildren after her daughter dies and they grow up with her and their grandfather,

they care for her and look after her into her old age,

she also has other grandchildren from her deceased son - she has seen these children maybe 10/15 times since her son died in 1998.

If you were one of the two children raised by the grandparents and your grandmother left her estate divided between you and the other grandchildren, would you think that fair?

Remember, this is effectively their parent who has died.