Probate help.

visibleman said:
If i wasn't interested in the estate or any money then i wouldn't personally be getting involved with it and leave it to the rest of the family to sort given there are implications with involving yourself as others have mentioned.


Definitely this if you are going to involve yourself though.

@baz178 - Having had to do similar recently, get a solicitor to at least handle any will, probate, court costs and pensions (they'll do a better job at chasing them especially if they're old and companies have merged/been taken over etc) as it will save you a few headaches.
Bank accounts and bills is now mostly online form filling or emails, and/or contacting bereavement departments but it's all fairly straightforward compared to everything else.
Someone mentioned getting loads of death certs., my experience is that most places were happy with a scanned copy being either emailed over or included as an online form attachment. We've only physically used three or four of them.
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She wants the money for our child not for her self.
 
visibleman said:
If i wasn't interested in the estate or any money then i wouldn't personally be getting involved with it and leave it to the rest of the family to sort given there are implications with involving yourself as others have mentioned.


Definitely this if you are going to involve yourself though.

@baz178 - Having had to do similar recently, get a solicitor to at least handle any will, probate, court costs and pensions (they'll do a better job at chasing them especially if they're old and companies have merged/been taken over etc) as it will save you a few headaches.
Bank accounts and bills is now mostly online form filling or emails, and/or contacting bereavement departments but it's all fairly straightforward compared to everything else.
Someone mentioned getting loads of death certs., my experience is that most places were happy with a scanned copy being either emailed over or included as an online form attachment. We've only physically used three or four of them.
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Provided you have your head screwed on, do the probate yourself - I've done it 3 times, including a particularly asset rich/complex estate and had no issues. I'd suggest a 'few' death certificates, as it\s more common than not that they'll want an original or certified copy - If you only have one, you'll need to wait for each company to return it before the next will act.

Based on what's been said, it sounds like OPs wife will have Letters of Administration (she applied per the first post, and there was no will) Assuming this is correct, then the rules of intestacy fall into effect. Did the OPs Father in Law have a wife? Other children? Siblings etc? In the absense of a will, the rules decide who gets what.
 
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Pez said:
Provided you have your head screwed on, do the probate yourself - I've done it 3 times, including a particularly asset rich/complex estate and had no issues. I'd suggest a 'few' death certificates, as it\s more common than not that they'll want an original or certified copy - If you only have one, you'll need to wait for each company to return it before the next will act.

Based on what's been said, it sounds like OPs wife will have Letters of Administration (she applied per the first post, and there was no will) Assuming this is correct, then the rules of intestacy fall into effect. Did the OPs Father in Law have a wife? Other children? Siblings etc? In the absense of a will, the rules decide who gets what.
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Is wife died 2 years ovo
 
baz178 said:
She died first! Then he died 2 years later. House was in is name he paid the mortgage all is life.
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Yes, but he likely inherited from her, so IHT reduction rules may apply. Your GF needs professional advice.

baz178 said:
She wants the money for our child not for her self.
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If there's a will then this sounds like varying it. Again, professional advice will pay dividends.
 
baz178 said:
She wants the money for our child not for her self.
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Get a solicitor involved; it'll save you a lot of aggro, not only with paperwork but also dealing with any tax implications and it ultimately removes some of the stress.
Just shop around, some work on percentages of the estate, some will flat-fee it for the basics and then hour/day-rate it for additionals.

Pez said:
I'd suggest a 'few' death certificates, as it\s more common than not that they'll want an original or certified copy - If you only have one, you'll need to wait for each company to return it before the next will act.
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Oh sure, i think we had eight in total and used half. My comment was more aimed at ordering shed loads of them as it's likely you won't need them all and you can always order more, you can't get a refund on them though.
 
Aberdeen Council were pretty great all told with both my mothers and brothers death, perhaps you just got unlucky, assuming it was in Aberdeen still.
 
When mum died we got a legal services team to take care of things and I'm glad we did.

We couldn't find a will, but they did a will search and found one, which mum made shortly after dad died many years earlier.

Then they found out that when dad died, his estate didn't go through probate, so they had to do this first.

Then it turns out that the solicitors that did mum's will were the executors, one of whom had retired and the other died. So they got the retired solicitor to relinquish his position as executor and the death certificate for the dead solicitor.

Then, finally, they could apply for the grant of probate.

Now way could we have done all this ourselves.
 
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