Soldato
Nah, totally fine with the "I'm not a qualified solicitor" all good
While we're here - rather than raising a new inheritance thread (as this one seems mostly answered. I'll take the hint immediately if it's a problem).
So Mike has 3 siblings. Mike passes away. 1 of the siblings (female as... it sometimes matters for blood relations) later also passes away.
When Mikes estate is being sorted out, without a will so basic probate, does the deceased sister's husband at the time she passed also get an automatic cut in?
I'd assume that as she was alive at the point Mike passed, she inherits her share, as his sister. This would then be split according to her will or passed by rules of probate to her spouse?
Just curious if there's a gotcha for the spouse, as the sisters estate was already considered wrapped up (I can't see there being any other reason he wouldn't get rights to a share).
For the record, I'm not the husband of the deceased sister (as it might be considered a bit dickish to demand a share in the above circumstances if I was).
Under intestacy rules there's a pecking order for who would inherit, which I think is spouse/partner first, then children, then grandchildren and other direct descendants, then parents, then siblings and finally siblings' children. If the siblings did inherit then my understanding is the same as Werewolf's and the share for a sibling that died after Mike would go into their estate. IANAL etc. etc.