Hi all
Take note of the following and be prepared
Most of us us are at that age were we will soon be facing either our parents or even our own mortality, double check all your documents if you are.
My wife's mother passed away recently in a care home, she had no house as in the UK that has to be sold to pay for her care home fees. We had her will appointing us as executors and that will split her wealth 50/50 between my wife and her brother who lives in Spain. We applied and was granted probate so was able to get access to the remainder of her money held by her bank ready the split it with the wife's brother. The suddenly out of the of the blue a letter arrived from a firm of solicitors who produced a newer will giving everything to her next door neighbour who she hated. They have some how managed to get her solicitor to change the will.
At the time the will was changed she was 92, profoundly deaf, almost blind and suffering from severe Dementia, and obviously in no fit state to change her will.
We have been advised by our solicitor that the is nothing we can do as a solicitor was involved and they are always above reproch.
In the time we had the money and thinking it was ours we paid off our mortgage and all our debts, so now not only have we got to pay it to these con artists but also lose our house to pay for the shortfall.
Anyone been through this in the UK, did you manage to win, who was your solicitor as I feel mine is just wrong, in saying the new will trumps the old and there is nothing we can do about it because it was prepared by a solicitor and the same one that did the first.
What was that solicitor thinking not even questioning when an elderly client suddenly want to change a will that gives everything to her own children and give it all to the none English family living next door, why did no alarm bells ring, why did she not even give us a call, just to check she was was not being duped or tricked in to this change, which she was.
Check all you documents if you are about to go through a family bereavement yourself, someone might be planning a surprise for you.
Paul