Am I a grabbing money loving g*t?
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SWMBO's Godfather died last year. He had no children, just four distant nephews and nieces on his late wife's side. When his wife died three years ago she left a lot of her jewellery to my wife, worth about £10k, thank you very much godmum.
As I said, Godfather died last year and left an appreciable estate, his flat and stocks and shares come to £2.7million which his will distributes among the four relatives.
We used to see him perhaps once or twice a year and he always told my wife "there's something in my will for you" and on two occasions told her he'd "leave her his Kruggerands", 50 are mentioned in his will. But there's no mention as to what to do with them and my wife's not mentioned in his will at all, so the executors intend to just include their value with the rest of his estate. Our visits to him were always private affairs with no-one to witness what he'd said.
Would it appear mean and penny pinching to question the executor about this since there's no mention of the Kruggerands or my wife or his "promises" in his will? Am I just skating on incredibly thin ice with about as much chance as Ken Livingstone winning the Kensington seat in the next Parliamentary elections?
As I said, Godfather died last year and left an appreciable estate, his flat and stocks and shares come to £2.7million which his will distributes among the four relatives.
We used to see him perhaps once or twice a year and he always told my wife "there's something in my will for you" and on two occasions told her he'd "leave her his Kruggerands", 50 are mentioned in his will. But there's no mention as to what to do with them and my wife's not mentioned in his will at all, so the executors intend to just include their value with the rest of his estate. Our visits to him were always private affairs with no-one to witness what he'd said.
Would it appear mean and penny pinching to question the executor about this since there's no mention of the Kruggerands or my wife or his "promises" in his will? Am I just skating on incredibly thin ice with about as much chance as Ken Livingstone winning the Kensington seat in the next Parliamentary elections?
Thanks all fopr your comments. most of which has been constructive.
He was 97 when he died and though his body was starting to let him down, he had the sharpest intellect of anybody I know. Was up to speed with current affairs and in many cases could tell you what the government would do about an issue before it happened. A chartered accountant, he knew the value of a pound. To him it was worth £1.50 'cos he'd show/tell you how to invest it. Told us once what particular pharma shares to invest in purely from reading the FT and he was dead right. Within three months they'd doubled but we didn't have the wherewithal to follow his advice.
Anyway, I sort of thought we had nowhere to go with this, as someone said if he'd really wanted my wife to have the KR's he'd have put a codicil in his will.
I haven't brought this issue up with his rellys though we've never had anything to do with any of them.
I bought his will from the probate website on-line and saw there what the will said and the grant of probate. Won't bother trying to do anything, just thought the Q was worth asking. Unfortunately I agree. Shame it'd have been nice to get the KR's, worth about £730 each so 50 are £360k less tax of course.
He was 97 when he died and though his body was starting to let him down, he had the sharpest intellect of anybody I know. Was up to speed with current affairs and in many cases could tell you what the government would do about an issue before it happened. A chartered accountant, he knew the value of a pound. To him it was worth £1.50 'cos he'd show/tell you how to invest it. Told us once what particular pharma shares to invest in purely from reading the FT and he was dead right. Within three months they'd doubled but we didn't have the wherewithal to follow his advice.
Anyway, I sort of thought we had nowhere to go with this, as someone said if he'd really wanted my wife to have the KR's he'd have put a codicil in his will.
I haven't brought this issue up with his rellys though we've never had anything to do with any of them.
I bought his will from the probate website on-line and saw there what the will said and the grant of probate. Won't bother trying to do anything, just thought the Q was worth asking. Unfortunately I agree. Shame it'd have been nice to get the KR's, worth about £730 each so 50 are £360k less tax of course.
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