Changes to intestacy rules from 1 October 2014

eddtheduck

For info.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/sep/20/wills-inheritance-changes-intestacy-rules

Text of new law is here:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/16/contents/enacted

rpc

Under current rules, co-habitees have no automatic right to receive a penny – regardless of how long they have lived together or even if they had children.

!!!!!!. You want the benefits of marriage, you get marriage. Sod romance, that "nothing but a piece of paper" puts in place legal protections for times like these.

John_Pierpoint

Perhaps the government wants ga ga old legal partner, usually the widow, inherit their children's wad so it can be used for the dementia nursing home or in due course go to the children of the "toy boy/girl" should the inheritor remarry?

Make a will

BobQ

This is always going to be a compromise.

Making a Will is the only way to make your wishes known. Not making one runs the risk of giving your money to people who do not deserve it.