Inheritance tax and property from an Ex-wife

Savvy_Sue

Flugelhorn said:

Savvy_Sue said:

Clearly, you'd need proper legal advice to be certain, and to be fair it seems my language is slightly imprecise, but Google 'does divorce always invalidate a will uk'.

The will itself is not invalidated by your divorce, but you cannot receive anything left to you.

UNLESS there's some special wording in the will, which is a possibility I've not heard of - you can for example write a will 'in contemplation of marriage', and you can write a will post divorce which includes your ex, but 'in contemplation of divorce'???

or possibly if the individual is just named in the will 

Yes, that's a possibility, but it's not something I think the OP should rely on.

@ManInWetherby, have you seen the will? Or just relying on discussion and memory from some time ago?

Flugelhorn

Savvy_Sue said:

Flugelhorn said:

Savvy_Sue said:

Clearly, you'd need proper legal advice to be certain, and to be fair it seems my language is slightly imprecise, but Google 'does divorce always invalidate a will uk'.

The will itself is not invalidated by your divorce, but you cannot receive anything left to you.

UNLESS there's some special wording in the will, which is a possibility I've not heard of - you can for example write a will 'in contemplation of marriage', and you can write a will post divorce which includes your ex, but 'in contemplation of divorce'???

or possibly if the individual is just named in the will 

Yes, that's a possibility, but it's not something I think the OP should rely on.

@ManInWetherby, have you seen the will? Or just relying on discussion and memory from some time ago?

I agree - reviewing  / redoing the will would be sensible. belt and braces now will save a lot of problems later 

ManInWetherby

Thanks all. I'm going on memory, to be honest. I "think" i am named in the will. We had started divorce proceedings before the will was written, but not at the time completed them, so it would've been an error if the solicitor had not written in a way that would allow for that to complete.

I will have to bring it up with her i guess and get her to check, although that's not an easy conversation to start.