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Council seeking care home fees retrospectively
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Sounds to me like a friend who happened to be a RETIRED solicitor was advising them. It will indeed be the local authority doing the chasing for money and I can tell you they are very persistent.0
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I can’t see where OP says Grandad inherited the house. Have I missed it or is it just an assumption?
Gt. Grandmother may have left her estate to Grandchildren or other family members. I hope OP comes back as I’m interested to see how it pans out.0 -
GhibliFan said:I can’t see where OP says Grandad inherited the house. Have I missed it or is it just an assumption?
Gt. Grandmother may have left her estate to Grandchildren or other family members. I hope OP comes back as I’m interested to see how it pans out.1 -
"So the family home was sold and divided up. And now most probly spent. It wasn't a massive amount buy time was divided up by 9. So now the council are claiming we owe for my grandfather but the house was never his or in his name. Plus again any moneys long gone"
I've read the OP again and quoted from it above. So either:
1. House was left to others in Gt. Grandmother's will.
2. Gt. Grandmother died Intestate and nobody administered estate at the time. In which case Grandfather would have been entitled to a share, but didn't receive anything as estate wasn't distributed.0 -
GhibliFan said:"So the family home was sold and divided up. And now most probly spent. It wasn't a massive amount buy time was divided up by 9. So now the council are claiming we owe for my grandfather but the house was never his or in his name. Plus again any moneys long gone"
I've read the OP again and quoted from it above. So either:
1. House was left to others in Gt. Grandmother's will.
2. Gt. Grandmother died Intestate and nobody administered estate at the time. In which case Grandfather would have been entitled to a share, but didn't receive anything as estate wasn't distributed.I am pretty sure councils don’t just tell families they owe money unless they have some evidence.0 -
GhibliFan said:"So the family home was sold and divided up. And now most probly spent. It wasn't a massive amount buy time was divided up by 9. So now the council are claiming we owe for my grandfather but the house was never his or in his name. Plus again any moneys long gone"
I've read the OP again and quoted from it above. So either:
1. House was left to others in Gt. Grandmother's will.
2. Gt. Grandmother died Intestate and nobody administered estate at the time. In which case Grandfather would have been entitled to a share, but didn't receive anything as estate wasn't distributed.1 -
Keep_pedalling said:I would nor want to be in the estate administrators shoes now that the LA have discovered the situation.Keep_pedalling said:GhibliFan said:I can’t see where OP says Grandad inherited the house. Have I missed it or is it just an assumption?
Gt. Grandmother may have left her estate to Grandchildren or other family members. I hope OP comes back as I’m interested to see how it pans out.
And I would have assumed that the LA would chase any potential way to pay some bills if there was a sniff of a possibility that it would work. So many times they will chase relatives to pay bills for which the relatives are not responsible on the off chance someone will bung them some of the money being requested.
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Presumably the council are now chasing this as grandfather's probate / LOA has been published and indicates a significant estate0
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