Funeral expenses mentioned on probate questionnaire

wilkko73

I'm filling in the probate questionnaire to help the solicitor fill in forms for probate.it mentions funeral account, I know how much the full cost was but the deposit was paid by me so is it ok to just mention the part sum paid as the funeral cost that came out of mum's estate as 1 sum so £1807.50 under funeral account and then put the bit that I'm owed under debts owed section(funeral balance) £1757.50 rather than just mentioning the total for those amounts under funeral costs .I hope that makes sense

Keep_pedalling

No, put in the whole cost. 

wilkko73

Thanks @Keep_pedalling so put in the whole cost and don't bother mentioning the bit I paid as me being a beneficiary I would get the money back anyway as would just take out of funds..

wilkko73

That's one of the things I'm worried about there is an app that I have to install called Thirdfort to verify identity and I think it probably looks at your bank statements or bank account too.I have heard those apps are used to check source of funds when people are buying homes to see if anything dodgy is going on,I know I'm not buying a home but they can still use it to scrutinise my funds,.I'm really worried that being solicitors they will want to be squeaky clean and not want to be paid from an estate before probate as that's what would be happening really,if they see payments entering my account from the savings account that has the money in from my mum's estate.
If that is the case I don't know what I'm going to as I can't afford to pay them out of my own account,I could be pushed in to debt with daily interest charges 

Savvy_Sue

Please stop worrying wilkko, the bank has released the funds to you before probate, but that is absolutely not a problem, because you've said elsewhere it's all coming to you. So even if anyone raised an eyebrow at seeing money go into your account, they'd lower it again pdq, because they would see why the money was released to you.