inheritance claim?

74jax

I thought the solicitors held the previous signed Will, and for some reason were passed this unsigned one and they just kept hold of it with the papers.  I think getting the last signed Will is the better option, rather than the more recent unsigned one.

Ganga

Flugelhorn said:

Ganga said:

nom_de_plume said:

The OP can check to see if a Will was submitted or if the grant was for Letters of Administration only at - Find a will | GOV.UK (probatesearch.service.gov.uk)

If there is no will registered with GOV.UK can they still get to see the LETTER OF ADMIN, ?

the letters of admin will just be that - a letter / piece of paper, there will be no information on it other than who was granted the admin

Excuse my ignorance but are you saying that if there is no will lodged with GOV.UK only letters of admin. they can not get to see any details of the estate?

Flugelhorn

Ganga said:

Flugelhorn said:

Ganga said:

nom_de_plume said:

The OP can check to see if a Will was submitted or if the grant was for Letters of Administration only at - Find a will | GOV.UK (probatesearch.service.gov.uk)

If there is no will registered with GOV.UK can they still get to see the LETTER OF ADMIN, ?

the letters of admin will just be that - a letter / piece of paper, there will be no information on it other than who was granted the admin

Excuse my ignorance but are you saying that if there is no will lodged with GOV.UK only letters of admin. they can not get to see any details of the estate?

Even if the will was available, you just get a statement of the total value of the estate as declared for probate, would be much the same for LOA - not the accounts. I think the only people who can see the accounts are the residual beneficiaries

TBagpuss

OP, if your friend wanted to claim on the estate he would need to make the claim within 6 months of the grant of probate or letters of administration, so unless the executors / administrators left it very late to apply , and only did so in the last 6 months, he is too late to make any application.

You say that they let your friend stay in the house for a year, but as his partner died in 2016 I presume that that means he moved out 3 or 4 years ago?  It's likely that the estate has since been distributed. 

depending on how the house was paid for it is just possible he might have been able to make a ToLATA claim, if he contributed in either money or work over the 30 years they lived there, but again, given that it is 4 or 5 years since she died and he hasn't raised it before, that would make it much harder, and I am not sure it would be possible if the house has since been sold.