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  • Margot123
    Margot123 Posts: 1,116 Forumite
    Just a thought: is your friend certain that their relative actually owned the house? They might have rented it and it has now been sold/re-let.
  • Ganga
    Ganga Posts: 4,253 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    She is 100% that the deceased owned the house outright,will speak to her later in the week,as an aside,does every will have to go to probate and is there a time limit.
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper I've helped Parliament
    Around 1/2 million people die each year.

    Around 50% get grant, probate or administration(will or no will).
  • Margot123
    Margot123 Posts: 1,116 Forumite
    getmore4less wrote: »
    Around 1/2 million people die each year.

    Around 50% get grant, probate or administration(will or no will).

    Unless there is anyone with equal rights to the property recorded on the title deeds, it must go to Probate, surely?
    The 50% you mention also include those with low-value estates, normally under £5,000.
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper I've helped Parliament
    The question was

    does every will have to go to probate
  • Ganga
    Ganga Posts: 4,253 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    getmore4less wrote: »
    The question was

    does every will have to go to probate

    I think that is what she basically asked me,if the estate was valued at say £250,00 ( house and money ) does it have to go to probate even if there is no will?
  • Yorkshireman99
    Yorkshireman99 Posts: 5,470 Forumite
    edited 24 November 2017 at 5:50PM
    Ganga wrote: »
    I think that is what she basically asked me,if the estate was valued at say £250,00 ( house and money ) does it have to go to probate even if there is no will?
    If there is a property involved then yes. If there is no will someone has to apply for l;etters of administration.
  • Margot123
    Margot123 Posts: 1,116 Forumite
    getmore4less wrote: »
    The question was

    does every will have to go to probate

    No need to shout.
    Maybe a little more detail needed to be added to your post....... rather than a cut and paste without explanation of what constituted the '50%'.
  • Ganga
    Ganga Posts: 4,253 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Thanks to everybody for replies,will ask the relevent questions when i see her this weekend.
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