How do I locate a missing Will?
Monday, March 30th, 2009
This is a letter the Certainty National Will Register has received from a member of the public.
My Grandfather recently died and to add to what’s been a very upsetting time for the whole family, we haven’t been able to locate his Will. My Mother seems to think that she recalls him writing a Will years ago but we haven’t been able to find it. We’ve checked with the last solicitor he used but they have no record of it. We’ve also tried speaking to his friends who all seem to think that he’s the kind of man who would have had such affairs in order so I can only imagine that his Will was written and has been lost over the years. So what’s the best way to locate a missing Will?
I’m currently researching other ways to locate a missing Will including contacting the major Will finder services and the national Will register Certainty. Although he wasn’t exactly computer literate I believe that the Certainty missing will notice board is accessible to solicitors daily so it’s definitely worth a try. I guess this must be a problem for so many relatives of elderly parents because so many things change over time that inevitably makes locating a missing Will so difficult. If we don’t find the Will, the courts will make all the decisions about the distribution of his assets which is such a shame because I know he would have wanted relatives to receive what she intended and not what the courts decide.
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