Just A Quick Question About This Court Case.....

[lcg]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281829/Debt-ridden-son-shot-dead-mother-father-230-000-inheritance-scam-survived-car-crash-faked-months-earlier.html

will he still inherit his parent's house and estate? i've always wondered in cases such as this and would be interested to know what the outcome would be. and what about the grandson? what would happen to him if there are no other relatives to care for him? poor lad....mtia x

[boxtops]

I don't think so. I can't remember the case law but if you murder someone you are not entitled to inherit from them. IMO

[mushroom25]

in 2004 Jeremy Bamber was in the high court seeking a share of the family inheritance. The court ruled that he was not entitled to any money from the estate because of his conviction

[FredPuli43]

If he is convicted , this man cannot inherit. It's principle of law that nobody shall benefit from their own crime or tort, still less bring an action to claim that benefit, for he would not come with what equity calls "clean hands"; it is against public policy that a man who murders his parents shall inherit the estate when he does so for that very purpose (or at all)

[Peter Pedant]

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since we are hypothetical - what about the malefactor's kids ?

That is under intestacy rules or if there is a der daaah per stripes clause in the dead parents will ?