Don't agree with this at all

Indeed. The link I gave shows where this is not the case, i.e. reasons when the will can be contested.

 

I was thinking of making a will, trying to decide who to leave my millions to.

Seems I dont need to bother now, could put a lot of solicitors out of work.

Think I'll just jot a few things down on the back of a cigarette packet.

 

I can understand the opinion that a will should be upheld. However where did the money come from in the first instance? If it is family wealth from the deceased fathers line, the likelihood is he would have wished for his offspring to inherit. Therefore should the mum have the right to prevent the child inheriting family wealth. If the money was generated entirely by the mother I feel she had a right to leave it to whoever she pleases.
I also believe that many folk do not donate regularly to a charity. Many of the folk I know prefer to ensure they have enough to provide for themselves in their lifetime (provision of care if needed etc). They plan to donate what is left over to charity, so having to prove a link to a charity is not really a fair representation of reflecting a persons last wishes.
Sorry not really familiar with the details of the case, or anything to do with inheritance law, just my random thoughts!

 

I'll be your friend

 

Does that mean if she had been left something there would be nothing the judge could do?

I'll make sure to leave all my extended relatives £1 hidden in a box of animal dung.

 

OK, I'm probably of a different view to everybody else but I've never worried about that sort of thing before.

Children/relatives have a right to inherit.

The Mother appears to have been still consumed with spite some 40 years after she wanted veto her daughter's choice of partner.

I can't comprehend [1] why the charities named in the last will didn't accept they'd done rather well out of their bequests and that, after the initial judgement, only £50,000 of the £460, 000 would go to the daughter, but no, they chose to keep on challenging, got less money and presumably had loads of extra legal costs

[1] Although they probably, as a charity, had some self defeating duty to do so.

 

Well I guess the word 'totally' is superfluous when saying she was cut out of the will.

 

Hi Scrungee,

" Children/relatives have a right to inherit "...... I don't think so.

Whatever I've got left when I go will go to who I say so ( hopefully ). I wouldn't want a single penny to go to my sister or any of her thieving lazy family. No- one can/ will ever tell me she's got a RIGHT to anything of mine.

Oh, and by the way my mum feels the same way.

 

Sadly, it is very common for families to fall out because of wills.

It has happened to my family....my brother and sister have fallen out big time over mum's will and....she is not even dead yet!