Inheritance Advice

RAS

So go to the Land Registry website and for £7 download details of your father's ownership of his residence. If it's a joint tenancy rather than tenants in common then dad's wife became the sole survivor when he died. Ditto any joint accounts.

Then report back.

Savvy_Sue

It does not sound as if you are entitled to anything under your uncle's will. 

If you are named as a beneficiary in your father's will, and that will is being dealt with by a solicitor, then there is a good chance that you will receive what you are due (because solicitors tend to do what the will says). 

If you know who that solicitor is, you could contact them and say that you understand you are named as a beneficiary, and believe that they will need you to supply ID and bank details: how would they like you to do this? So you're not asking for information, you're giving them some. 

Chubby_Bunny

His will has been dealt with over 6 months ago and a solicitor wasn't used apparently, but from other peoples comments it looks like she gets what was supposed to go to myself and I can't challenge it so I'm just going to forget I was named in the will as its not worth the stress.

Heliocentric

Keep_pedalling said:

If that old will was made before he married her it would no longer be valid. 

why not? if that's his last will then it should be. 

poppystar

Heliocentric said:

Keep_pedalling said:

If that old will was made before he married her it would no longer be valid. 

why not? if that's his last will then it should be. 

Marriage nullifies any existing Will unless it specifically says it is written in anticipation of marriage to the future spouse. 

msb1234

Chubby_Bunny said:

His will has been dealt with over 6 months ago and a solicitor wasn't used apparently, but from other peoples comments it looks like she gets what was supposed to go to myself and I can't challenge it so I'm just going to forget I was named in the will as its not worth the stress.

A hour’s appointment with a solicitor for a couple of hundred £s would be able to identify what exactly you should have received from your Uncle’s estate. However, by downloading his will and probate, you can find the info for yourself. If you do this and it shows, for example, that your father would have received 25% of £10,000 then it most certainly would be worth your while to seek legal advice. 

GaleSF63

poppystar said:

Heliocentric said:

Keep_pedalling said:

If that old will was made before he married her it would no longer be valid. 

why not? if that's his last will then it should be. 

Marriage nullifies any existing Will unless it specifically says it is written in anticipation of marriage to the future spouse. 

Or unless you are in Scotland.

Chubby_Bunny

msb1234 said:

Chubby_Bunny said:

His will has been dealt with over 6 months ago and a solicitor wasn't used apparently, but from other peoples comments it looks like she gets what was supposed to go to myself and I can't challenge it so I'm just going to forget I was named in the will as its not worth the stress.

A hour’s appointment with a solicitor for a couple of hundred £s would be able to identify what exactly you should have received from your Uncle’s estate. However, by downloading his will and probate, you can find the info for yourself. If you do this and it shows, for example, that your father would have received 25% of £10,000 then it most certainly would be worth your while to seek legal advice. 

I've been told that because of how my uncles will was worded and my dad out lived him by 3 days regardless of what was put in his will of his shares being passed on to me no longer stands as he would have needed to have passed before my uncle did. So what should have been passed on to me now goes to his wife even though she's not named in the will. His share goes into his estate, my dad also had a will but the executor and his wife is refusing to show any of the family his will so we don't know what was in it with regards to my father's estate or his wishes etc. It never went to probate as she said she inherited it all so we will never know. 

bobster2

Your use of the term "should" is muddying things here. You're mixing up what "should" have happened with what you would like to have happened.

It sounds like, under the terms of your uncle's will, if your father was alive when your uncle died, then a bequest from your uncle should have gone to your father. That's what the will specified - so that is what should have happened.

As your father subsequently passed away, what should happen now depends on what your father's will says, or the rules of intestacy if he does not have a valid will.

Chubby_Bunny

That's the issue we don't know if he did have a will or not as the so called person who claims to be in charge of the will is refusing to disclose any info to family and his wife is refusing to do the same just insisting that everything was left to her but there's no proof of that. We are just going on her say so, she's refusing to do what my dad requested and has had his ashes scattered when he wanted to be put in with his parents and he also wanted a memorial plaque and she's also refused to share details of what he wanted on that too.