Puzzling letter from Probate office

tonysue

After sending in the appropriate probate forms, I have received a reply which has me stumped.
It suggests that has there are no assets I do not need probate, and can reclaim my fee.
What I am not understanding is the  house needs to be registered into my name. So how can an house left in a will not be an asset?
Can I go ahead and change the house deeds without the probate letter?

xylophone

Did you and the deceased own the property as joint tenants?

tonysue

No I lived with my dad in the house, and he left the house to me in his will.
There is no other family.

Flugelhorn

that does sound very strange - daft question but did you put a value etc for the house on the IHT form?

tonysue

yes the valuation was correctly inputted

xylophone

Mystified.....

Mojisola

Human error?

Flugelhorn

Mojisola said:

Human error?

most likely - OP needs to contact the probate office to get another human being to look at it

tonysue

first thing Monday, I will try to contact them
Thank you

Yamenja

Curious as to what happened here, as I am also at the receiving end of a mistake by them.

Pennylane

I have no idea what’s going on in these official organisations but nothing surprises me anymore.   I received an email from the Office of the Public Guardian some months ago and I have never seen anything like it!  There were about 15 spelling or grammatical errors in just a few lines of type.   

I suspected it was a scam email because it was so bad and I contacted the OPG who amazingly confirmed it was genuine and from one of their “Managers”.   They said they would be discussing the matter with her.