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Cougar’s ” entitled to * all” comment is related to divorce, which is not what we’re talking about here
Yeah, you're right I think. They're different things.
Getting married nullifies a will, it has to be amended. My mum redid hers when my dad died, it cost like £200 or something to remove all the bits that concerned him.
If a couple divorce then it's no longer the case that the former wife gets half of everything. it's divided more fairly. After two years' separation it can be done unilaterally, you just have to serve papers.
If one dies without a will, I don't actually know. I probably should find out because if I clock out tomorrow my girlfriend is potentially *ed given that I'm technically still married.
Again though - AIUI. I may well be wrong. This is new and I only just started looking into it in anger before I unexpectedly had other crap to deal with.
If one dies without a will, I don’t actually know. I probably should find out because if I clock out tomorrow my girlfriend is potentially ****ed given that I’m technically still married.
Yes indeed. A slight hijack but you really ought to sort this out, yesterday. If you can't manage that, then some time this week will have to do.
You can write a will really very easily and quickly. And if you do a really quick and basic job, that you want to amend later (when you've decided who to entrust with your treasured collection of teddy bears), you can amend it quite easily too. So no reason to put it off until you've really had a long think about all the details (ie, indefinitely so it never gets done).
I would get some professional advice from a solicitor as there is sime muddled thinking from contributors already on this thread
Once you know what the position is legally then you have a sound basis for deciding what action to take