bequests & wills

[Rebecca666]

I have just found out a friend of mine died a year ago... as he had no relatives I was wondering if I was left anything in his will? I do not know who his solicitirs were so I can ask them... all the "missing money" sites I've found charge loads. Does anyone know where I can find out for free??

[joko]

if he died a year ago and you didn't know, you can't have been that close, can you ... so why would he leave you anything?

also anyone mentioned in the will would have been contacted at the time.

[Rebecca666]

the reason I didn't know he'd died is irrelevent & none of Your business! That was not my question so thanks for nothing!!!

[Rebecca666]

Does anyone have any sensible suggestions???
I had got married and moved but my friend was not aware, so had he made a will, it would have been in my previous name making it harder to trace me.....

[grannyg]

Anyone is entitled to buy a copy of any will.You need to find out from your local Registry Office the address to write to (I think it's somewhere in York) and it will cost you �5.00. They will need to know the full name of the deceased and exact date of death.

[Rebecca666]

Thanks Grannyg

[$~Jeep~$]

If people need to be found for the purpose of reading of the will and its proceeds, there are several ways in which this is carried out. Quite often when somebody dies, who hasn't made out a will, (and it is believed that they do not have any surviving relatives/next of kin), before the person's estate goes to the crown, the solicitors of that person will do searches, and if nothing is found then they will hire private investigators. They leave no stone unturned, and it is very rare that they do not find someone related, however remote in the bloodline.

So, even if you had married, divorced, married again, moved and moved yet again, it is most unlikely that the solicitors would not have 'found' you and been in contact.

[joko]

i was making the point that their was little chance of him leaving you anything given the circumstances - you even got married and never told him!

i wouldn't leave anything to someone who had disappeared from my life, got married, possibly even had kids, had no contact whatsoever with me for years and didn't even know i had died until a year afterwards, and only comes sniffing around when i am dead to see what they can get...
too busy were you? not too busy now 'eh?

great friend...