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Title: Inheritance
Post by: BW252 on Tuesday 24 January 17 08:45 GMT (UK)

Who would inherit estate

Person dies intestate with no immediate family.
There is one cousin alive (siblings all deceased)
There are various 1st cousins once removed (children of above deceased siblings), some deceased.
There are various 1st cousins twice removed.


Added:    person died 2016, England

Title: Re: Inheritance
Post by: GUT on Tuesday 24 January 17 08:57 GMT (UK)

Big question is when and where.

Either govt or possibly the cousin.

Title: Re: Inheritance
Post by: stanmapstone on Tuesday 24 January 17 09:08 GMT (UK)

See https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/relationships/death-and-wills/who-can-inherit-if-there-is-no-will-the-rules-of-intestacy/

"A cousin can inherit instead if the uncle or aunt who would have inherited died before the intestate person"

Stan

Title: Re: Inheritance
Post by: Christine53 on Tuesday 24 January 17 09:35 GMT (UK)

I received a share in a small estate  a couple of years ago. The deceased was my cousin. His parents were dead and he had no wife or children but one uncle still living  out of a family of 11 siblings. The estate was divided so that the surviving uncle received an 11th share and the children of the deceased uncles and aunts each received a  portion of the 11th share that their parent would have received - in my case a third of the 11th share .