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Will advice
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The beneficiary may only be threatening legal action against the executors.0
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He has no need to challenge the will over an uninforcable clause. I would simply wash my hands of the situation by distributing the remaining cash, if he blows the lot then he is an idiot but it is entirely down to him.
Thrying to keep control of your assets beyond the grave is a pointless exercise, and the only way to stop someone wasting your hard earned is to not leave it to them in the first place.0 -
Legally they HAVE to give him any existing money now. He can sue them if they do not.The will may have been a diy kit, but was written and witnessed by hospice staff. The beneficiary was already 18 at the time of writing of the will, but she was well aware of how reckless with money and possessions he had already become so to try and set him up in later life, the will was written with specific ages for release and so far as been stuck to. The excuetors are parents and in laws of the deceased so want to stick to her final wishes to the letter.0 -
Of course, in the chasing of this money which the executors will have to give him, the beneficiary has now annoyed the executors who (unless I have misunderstood) are his grandparents. I expect they have found a better place for their hard earned once they no longer have use for it.0
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By texting 7 times in one day?
A properly written letter before action takes up a lot of SMSes at 140 characters each...Lauraje wrote:The excuetors are parents and in laws of the deceased so want to stick to her final wishes to the letter.
Then they should have renounced the role of bare trustee, because their legal duty towards the beneficiary overrides their moral obligation to the deceased.
This particular final wish of the deceased was to stop a competent adult accessing their own money which is not allowed.0
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