Contesting a Will as Next-of-Kin

RomfordNavy

74jax said:

Informing beneficiaries is not intermedling.  Just tell them.  

Well the Solicitors I have spoken to suggest it is, perhaps you know better.  Remember I am not supposed to have even seen this Will.

Stop keep repeating the same thing without considering the implications.  I am not going to risk prosecution when I am not even a beneficiary.

If the deceased's family decide they want to contest the Will for whatever reason the advice they have received is that it is preferrable for them to do so before Probate has been applied for.  I am not going to go against the wishes of the family.  They will not know if they wish to contest or not until after they have the results of the Larke vs Nugus request.

RomfordNavy

As a result of the Tell-us-once procedure I have just received a cheque for refund of car tax, however it is in my name not the name of the deceased.  If I pay that into my bank to keep it safe would that count as intermeddling?

74jax

Informing beneficiaries is not intermedling. Just tell them.

Well the Solicitors I have spoken to suggest it is, perhaps you know better. 



I suggest you speak to other solicitors.  If you are worried, inform the beneficiaries anonymously.  

 

Thrugelmir

RomfordNavy said:

74jax said:

Informing beneficiaries is not intermedling.  Just tell them.  

Well the Solicitors I have spoken to suggest it is, perhaps you know better.  Remember I am not supposed to have even seen this Will.

Which doesn't bode well for any action you may pursue. 

Gers

RomfordNavy said:

As a result of the Tell-us-once procedure I have just received a cheque for refund of car tax, however it is in my name not the name of the deceased.  If I pay that into my bank to keep it safe would that count as intermeddling?

https://sasdaniels.co.uk/blog/intermeddling-with-an-estate/

according to this this - yes. it would count as intermeddling - unless you the Executor?

RomfordNavy

Thrugelmir said:

Which doesn't bode well for any action you may pursue. 

Or don't pursue as the case may be.  I don't want to do anything illegal which by the looks of it means there is nothing I can do.  Not even pay in the car tax refund!

Thrugelmir

RomfordNavy said:

Thrugelmir said:

Which doesn't bode well for any action you may pursue. 

 Not even pay in the car tax refund!

Presumably you claimed the refund in your name (somehow?).  

RomfordNavy

Thrugelmir said:

Presumably you claimed the refund in your name (somehow?).  

No just did the simple Tell-us-once system, there are no options as far as I remember.  This is just the default behaviour of the system.  It looks like the system is actually designed to encourage the family member notifying the death to intermeddle in the estate.

Some other cheques have turned-up in the deceased name and I have just paid them into the deceased bank account, I now wonder if that counted as intermeddleing.

BooJewels

Not quite sure how you got a road tax refund.  I've recently used the Tell Us Once service and just got a letter from DVLA addressed to the 'estate of' asking me to make sure the car was registered and taxed appropriately, if it had changed hands or been SORNed etc.  So presumably the car has been sold or taken off road or something since the deceased passed? 

If you are worried about intermeddling by making one phone call to the beneficiaries - surely that horse is well down the road by now if you're doing things with their car and things that generate cheques to be posted directly to you 100+ miles away?

Although it's also true to say that there are so many twists in this thread now, I don't know what the real story is any more.

Thrugelmir

RomfordNavy said:

Thrugelmir said:

Presumably you claimed the refund in your name (somehow?).  

No just did the simple Tell-us-once system, there are no options as far as I remember.  This is just the default behaviour of the system.  It looks like the system is actually designed to encourage the family member notifying the death to intermeddle in the estate.

Some other cheques have turned-up in the deceased name and I have just paid them into the deceased bank account, I now wonder if that counted as intermeddleing.

Why are you receiving the cheques?  Why are you notifying of the death and handling the deceased's affairs?