UK Find-a-Will charges

[jc26red]

Both my wills turned up this afternoon I have yet to download them but fingers crossed they are complete.

(ordered August 11th)

[ele002]

The third & final Will of my last order....1 August....finally arrived. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to the way they are handling the orders and they certainly don't seem to be catching up with themselves.

Personally, I don't think they know how to get themselves out of the mess they've created. If they had anything about them, this situation wouldn't have happened in the first place. They would have realised that by reducing the price there was likely to be a surge in orders and would have been ready for it. If they couldn't get it right at the start I don't think we can expect them to improve things at this stage.

It would be interesting to know if the HMCTS themselves have intervened.

[clairec666]

Personally, I don't think they know how to get themselves out of the mess they've created. If they had anything about them, this situation wouldn't have happened in the first place. They would have realised that by reducing the price there was likely to be a surge in orders and would have been ready for it. If they couldn't get it right at the start I don't think we can expect them to improve things at this stage.

I imagine that they anticipated a surge, but underestimated how big that surge would be!

[farmeroman]

What additional information (if any) is there for Adminstration only? Or is it a waste of £1.50 in those cases?

[Tickettyboo]

Grant of admin will tell you
The name, date and place of death of the deceased
The name and address of the person to whom admin was granted
Gross and net value of the estate
Probate office which issued the grant
Date of the grant

Which, for older entries in the old printed calendars, is the info you will get from the calendar.

For more recent probate entries, (not sure when it started but think it was the 1960s?) the person to whom admin was granted isn't in the calendar results, so that may be of interest (unless it was a solicitor in which case its possibly not going to help much)
and very recent entries don't give details of where the person died or the estate value, just a name date of death, date of grant and probate office

Boo

[farmeroman]

Grant of admin will tell you
The name, date and place of death of the deceased
The name and address of the person to whom admin was granted
Gross and net value of the estate
Probate office which issued the grant
Date of the grant

Which, for older entries in the old printed calendars, is the info you will get from the calendar.

For more recent probate entries, (not sure when it started but think it was the 1960s?) the person to whom admin was granted isn't in the calendar results, so that may be of interest (unless it was a solicitor in which case its possibly not going to help much)
and very recent entries don't give details of where the person died or the estate value, just a name date of death, date of grant and probate office

Boo

Thanks for that. Probably not worth it then, even for £1.50.

[Tickettyboo]

Depends on the date, I've had a couple of grants (from more recent probate entries) that have helped just by finding out who was granted admin or confirming the deceased's address.

Boo

[smudwhisk]

Well I finally received a response to the contact form submitted on 3 Oct about the missing pages in the Will today, so they appear to have a 20 day delay in answering such messages.

I finally received the full Will yesterday via email.  They only missed off the last page but it does make you wonder how/why ....

[ele002]

Finally received my missing Will today. I also raised it with them on 3rd October, so they seem to have some consistency there.

Also looks as though they are treating the matter of missing Wills seriously and by their standards, with some urgency.