Dying without a will

If you do not make a will then you will die intestate, the people you love may not inherit what you wanted them to. Intestacy rules will apply in this situation.

 

Joint property – there is a chance this can be inherited by the person who jointly owned the property with the deceased. This includes housing, bank or building society accounts. Any money inherited via this route will not count towards the estate of the deceased.

 

Spouses – if you were married to or in a civil partnership with the deceased you will inherit primarily. Any divorced persons or cohabiting partners will not inherit. 

 

Children – if there are 2 or more children the estate will be split among them; they will receive their share when they are 18 or marry before.

 

Grandchildren/great-grandchildren – they cannot inherit from the estate of an intestate person unless either their parent or grandparent has died before the intestate person, their parent is alive when the intestate person dies before reaching the age of 18 without having married or formed a civil partnership. 

For further information on all of the above, please visit: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/family/death-and-wills/who-can-inherit-if-there-is-no-will-the-rules-of-intestacy/

 

How we can help

Lestons can arrange a third party to write a will for you as this is currently not a service that we offer, please note we make no commission from these referrals but do need clients to open a case so that we can prepare a financial brief for them. To gain our assistance you need to open a case, this is done by taking advantage of our free consultation service, activated by the link at the top of the page, should you wish to start a case the caseworker will send you the suitable payment link.

 

Please note your caseworker can only give generic advice, their role is to prepare your details for handling by our will writing experts and to act as your point of contact, they will also issue you with your Password and PIN, these will be needed to log onto your client dashboard. From your dashboard you will be able to manage and view every aspect of your case, upload documents, images, files etc.