to all by law and if a will is found they can rip it up!!
What I always wondered and now it is personal.......If a person makes a will with a solicitor and is now deceased, he has only one surviving blood relative so therefore brother inherits all but what I was told by deceased he was leaving me something in will so I wonder how does solicitor know a person is deceased and the wishes are to be carried out? I mean the brother of the deceased can always say he knows of no will ever made, so do solicitors have a duty and how can they know when one of their clients dies.
Thanks
This is why it is a good idea to tell people you have a will.
I seriously doubt solicitors trawl death notices looking for the names of deceased clients.
Actually, a friend of mine was had an admin job in a solicitors office and one of her jobs was to read the death notices every day.
This is one of the reasons why a register could cause more problems than it might solve - I could envisage endless legal actions for the courts to decide on which was indeed the final will.
Would the documents date not prove this?
This is one of the reasons I won't have a death notice when the time comes.
sorry for jumping on you post but we had a similiar discussion recently. when we made our will there was no discussion about where our banking was done or where our millions (I wish) was hidden. what happens when someone dies and there is an account no one knows about. Does the govt just take it back into central funds after a period of no action or what ? Would it be in order for some (maybe the executor) to write to head offices of bank and request if an account was in a deceased person's name ?
But Huskerdu do you not think IF a solicitor does inform an executor of a will they should see that it is carried out (or maybe they do?). I mean they have accepted a fee for drawing up a will.
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