if you don't have a will can you answer please?

Person_one

74jax wrote: »

Nope but never mind......

I really hope you can get this sorted, sadly, sometimes it takes seeing the reality of a situation actually happening to people you know to realise what the impact really is.

sassyblue

I've recently started working in a solicitors and l would say get a will done!

People will fight over tuppence, it's really an eye opener.

Ol_Jay

Person_one wrote: »

I really hope you can get this sorted, sadly, sometimes it takes seeing the reality of a situation actually happening to people you know to realise what the impact really is.

sassyblue wrote: »

I've recently started working in a solicitors and l would say get a will done!

People will fight over tuppence, it's really an eye opener.

Also, even just reading some of the threads on the Probate board shows the mess that dying intestate often entails

Mojisola

sassyblue wrote: »

People will fight over tuppence, it's really an eye opener.

And I expect the majority of the deceased would have said "My family won't be like that" if anyone had suggested their relatives might fight over the estate.

74jax

I would hope I wouldn't turn into one of the people you talk about I'm quite happy with the amount I would get if he died without a will, if he chooses for the rest to go to his mum then so be it. It's more the idea of sorting everything out whilst still grieving for him that is my reasoning he should have one.

Ol_Jay

Mojisola wrote: »

And I expect the majority of the deceased would have said "My family won't be like that" if anyone had suggested their relatives might fight over the estate.

74jax wrote: »

I would hope I wouldn't turn into one of the people you talk about I'm quite happy with the amount I would get if he died without a will, if he chooses for the rest to go to his mum then so be it. It's more the idea of sorting everything out whilst still grieving for him that is my reasoning he should have one.

Alas many people are all too like that though.Hopefully your situation is different.
I'm personally involved in two relatives intestate estates at the moment, the same Admin and beneficaries.
One has been going on for 14 years already with no clear end in sight :eek: Though it involves unregistered land etc,it's further complicated as other relatives had previously died intestate!

It only needs one person to be awkward/greedy etc for the whole process to stumble, or others to feel they need to/have to be similar minded out of principle or to fight for their "share"

Sorry,not to whine or derail,just my recent experiences.
Plenty more threads too on the probate board

purpleshoes_2

That's my will done and dusted, signed it this morning, £80 plus vat, really glad thats it done (and Id have hummed and hawed over it for another year or two if I hadn't read this thread).

At the moment what Im going to leave is a 5 figure sum, certainly not a fortune, but its important to know that in the event of my death that my brother would get and not the other relative mentioned earlier on.

74jax

purpleshoes wrote: »

That's my will done and dusted, signed it this morning, £80 plus vat, really glad thats it done (and Id have hummed and hawed over it for another year or two if I hadn't read this thread).

At the moment what Im going to leave is a 5 figure sum, certainly not a fortune, but its important to know that in the event of my death that my brother would get and not the other relative mentioned earlier on.

:beer::beer::beer:

Ol_Jay

purpleshoes wrote: »

That's my will done and dusted, signed it this morning, £80 plus vat, really glad thats it done (and Id have hummed and hawed over it for another year or two if I hadn't read this thread).

At the moment what Im going to leave is a 5 figure sum, certainly not a fortune, but its important to know that in the event of my death that my brother would get and not the other relative mentioned earlier on.

74jax wrote: »

:beer::beer::beer:

Seconded :beer:

This exactly. Having a will should make it clear as to your intentions. There's plenty of awkward intestacys, as seen on the probate board for example.Though there's quite a few examples of badly crafted or ambiguous wills too, where more thought or a letter,to someone who is being excluded,might of been a good thing.
There's no reason really to not make a will IMO, dying intestate, in all but the most straightforward of cases, and even then, leaves a messy and unclear situation.

74jax

Ol_Jay wrote: »

Seconded :beer:

There's no reason really to not make a will IMO, dying intestate, in all but the most straightforward of cases, and even then, leaves a messy and unclear situation.

Can you elaborate for me, it might help me convince him to make one.

At the moment me as his wife and his mum as sill alive would inherit if he died without one.

I'm trying my hardest to get him to do one using will aid, so need all the ammunition I can get.