Just learned of Father's death...

Shedboy74_2

xylophone wrote: »

Your father died intestate? Was this before or after 1 Oct 2014?

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

I don't know yet.

It was before 2014.

Shedboy74_2

onwards&upwards wrote: »

Good luck.

Thank you.

DUTR

Shedboy74 wrote: »

Cheers for the life lesson 👍

Wasn't really asking for anyone's opinion. Just wanted pointed in the right direction for a ton of reasons you will never know of

I don't need to know, when you finally pass you can nominate now, who you wish your estate to go to , it doesn't have to be your offspring, and just because you are male doesn't make you a bad person, just like your late Father, a visit or few every summer overall is still classed as estranged.

Tom99

Maybe this will be a chance to get in touch with your two sisters who may in turn have children by now.

TBagpuss

I'm sorry no onwe told you when he died.
As others have said, if he didn't have a will, his wife will have inheritied the first £250,000 of his estate (and if he and she owned a house together, that may well have been owned as joint tenants in which case it will have passsed to her direct,and would not be part of the £350K she would get as his widow)

If he left a will he may well, as many married ciouples do, have let everything to her.

Unless he left anything to you in the will that was not paid to you, I think it is very unlikely that you could make a claim now - normally cliams have to be made within 6 months of thegrant of probate, and while this can be extended, I doubt it would be considered reasonable to extend for years.

Marcon

DUTR wrote: »

At 45 , you should already be self sufficient enough not to hope for a portion of an assumed estate from an estranged parent.
He wasn't with your Mum and yet found love and married somebody else, so he couldn't have been all that bad after all, but at 45 you would learn that from life experiences.
Finally he may have a will and may have specifically excluded you?

How exactly does this post help to answer the original question?

Tigsteroonie

OP, at least you've found a link to will & probate, so you'll get an answer to your question. Similar situation, my father died a couple of years ago but there's no sign of will or probate on the gov.uk site so I can only presume he left everything to his second wife (property would have gone to her automatically through joint ownership) and excluded his older children from his first marriage completely.

I wasn't expecting a fortune, but it would have been nice to have been acknowledged.

lookstraightahead

DUTR wrote: »

At 45 , you should already be self sufficient enough not to hope for a portion of an assumed estate from an estranged parent.
He wasn't with your Mum and yet found love and married somebody else, so he couldn't have been all that bad after all, but at 45 you would learn that from life experiences.
Finally he may have a will and may have specifically excluded you?

How very naive

Flugelhorn

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

OP, at least you've found a link to will & probate, so you'll get an answer to your question. Similar situation, my father died a couple of years ago but there's no sign of will or probate on the gov.uk site so I can only presume he left everything to his second wife (property would have gone to her automatically through joint ownership) and excluded his older children from his first marriage completely.

I wasn't expecting a fortune, but it would have been nice to have been acknowledged.

The problem often is that when a family structure is anything but really simple ie when there are divorces / fallings out / second marriages / separations / stepchildren / half siblings appear in the picture it can just become too emotionally complex for people to cope with - reckon they all hope that

"someone will sort it out after I have gone, they'll do the RIGHT thing (whatever that is) and I won't be around to know"