Parents spent my inheritance...

Keep_pedalling

AdrianC wrote: »

The estrangement related to the daughter leaving home at 17 to move in with a man, whom she then married and had five kids with.

True, but 17 year olds do stupid things, and a parent would need a very cold heart to cut a daughter and her grandchildren out of her life forever, and it sounds like she died a bitter and lonely old woman.

Not that any of this has any relevance to the OPs case which seems an open and shut case of dodgy parents / trustees misappropriating beneficiaries money.

Keep_pedalling

xylophone wrote: »

Extract?

Unless you're thinking of handing themselves over to a foreign state:eek::eek:

Whoops! That should indeed be the word :embarasse

Marvel1

AdrianC wrote: »

Remember it? It's in the Supreme Court at the moment...

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/dec/12/charities-in-supreme-court-battle-to-preserve-womans-inheritance

Mother and daughter fell out in 1978, when daughter aged 17, and never reconciled.
Mother died in 2004, left £486k to RSPB, Blue Cross, RSPCA, £0 to daughter.
Daughter awarded £50k in 2007.
Charities appealed, award revoked.
Daughter appealed, awarded £164k in 2015.
Charities appealing again now.

On the surface, it looks like the only winners are the daughters - and I can foresee a Jarndyce-style pyrrhic victory for whichever side wins - but for the charities there's much more at stake, because this is going to be a major precedent.

I hope sense prevails and the charities win.

This is what does my head in, they had a fallen out, and never spoke to each other again, but as soon as Mum dies, Daughter comes sniffing around for money!!

bouicca21

Since OP hasn't seen the will and only thinks she knows what the terms were, there's no point in rubbishing her parents (at least not yet).