I have recently scoured my Fathers house from top to bottom looking for his missing will as he recently passed on. I’m pretty sure he wrote a will as he mentioned that the only item that was specifically leaving to one of the children was a piano which he was going to leave to my brother.

This isn’t the reason for needing to find the missing will obviously as my brother is more than welcome to have the piano but as I’ve discovered a missing will in certain financial situations is going to leave us in the hands of the rules of intestate. We have been told that if you find yourself in a situation of a missing will there are a number of action steps you should take. One is to search the deceased house although in our case I know my Father kept a lot of important documents in a briefcase and this briefcase went missing after a recent burglary.

You can run a search with the national will register or you can try the probate register. To cover all bases I am currently doing all of this.

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My Grandmother recently died and to add to what’s been a very upsetting time for the whole family, we haven’t been able to locate her Will. My Father seems to think that he recalls her writing a Will years ago but we haven’t been able to find it.

We’ve checked with the last solicitor she used but they have no record of it. We’ve also tried speaking to her friends who all seem to think that she’s the kind of lady who would have had such affairs in order so I can only imagine that her Will was written and has been lost over the years. So what’s the best way to find a missing Will?

I’m currently researching other ways to find a missing Will including contacting the major Will finder services and the national will register Certainty. Although she wasn’t exactly up-to-date with computers at her age, 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 finding a missing Will so difficult.

If we don’t find the Will, the courts will make all the decisions about the distribution of her assets which is such a shame because I know she would have wanted relatives to receive what she intended and not what the courts decide.

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