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Sorry, I think I used the wrong word when I said it was 'strange'. I didn't mean to imply in any way that there was something funny going on or anything like that. I meant I just couldn't see how it all works. My elderly friend has no family whatsoever, I met him 8 yrs ago when I saw him struggling to walk his dog from my front room window each evening and eventually went out and asked if I could possibly walk his dog. He was very pleased to let me. As the years went on I gradually did more and more for him (cooking, cleaning, shopping etc as he's been housebound for the last 3 yrs). He made me his next of kin around 4 yrs ago. I don't ever ask him what he has got or where it is because Im aware that he has left it to me and it wouldn't feel right. So if I don't know and the solicitor has never asked and my friend isn't around anymore, I couldn't see how it all works. Would it be up to me to collect everything together to give to the solicitor.