Probate/no will - any experience?

[anonymous-user]

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[Countdown]

What relation was the Deceased to you and your sister?

When somebody dies Intestate there is a pecking order in terms of how their assets are divvied up.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/family/death-and...

[Caterhamfan]

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if it's a "will finding service" and they've written to you "speculatively" it sounds like a scam. What are they wanting you to do? I would be very careful about handing over any money for any "services".

[Sam Aigal]

Google probate search.gov.uk
If a will was left it will have been published there.
There will also be a record of who was appointed as executor.
There are rules for how things should be divided which executors should follow but how they act depends on what they know or what they have been told/made aware of.
If you disagree with how things have been handled you can challenge them but there are time limits ( 6 months from grant of probate IIRC )
IANAL and the best advice I can give is to speak to a properly qualified one. From my own experience when my estranged father died people you thought you could trust can get very underhand when there is the sniff of free money.

[konark]

If it's been distributed according to intestacy rules you are just as entitled as your sister, assuming she is a full sister.

the first thing a solicitor should have asked your sister when they contacted her was 'do you have any siblings?'.

Maybe she forgot about you.

[GreatGranny]

Have you asked your sister?