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Just reading through some old papers that I hadn't had a chance to read and saw this from last week.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news ... 18163.html

Basically a 28 year old woman was taken to court by her uncles and aunts who alleged that she should not have inherited 263k from her grandmother's will and doing so was due to a drafting mistake, because she had lived with her boyfriend for 18 months before marrying him, and the uncles and aunts say their mother was a devout Catholic who did not approve of living in sin and wouldn't have wanted her to inherit. the court agreed, and her share will now be divided between the uncles and aunts.

She inherited because her mother died three years ago, and her mother's share was given to her (the mother's) children, which would be a fairly standard will clause, so she doesn't appear to have been specifically names in the will, but then the will was drafted after her mother's death. Very odd.

Greed.

DP was apparently written out of his spinster aunties will when we had a child together out of wedlock. DP couldn't give a rats arse and finds it funny.

And hard to see how it's legally justifiable, no?

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Two lovely girls aged 3 and 1

How could they prove that the grandmother would not have wanted her money to go to her granddaughter? It is one thing to hold strong opinions about something and another to disinherit someone because they don't hold the same opinions.

I'd also take the view that if the granddaughter only inherited because her mother had died then the money was being left to the mother who presumably would not have disinherited her own daughter so it seems doubly unfair.

All seems really odd.

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Mum to three summer babies ... 2000, 2005, 2008.

dh's uncle died recently and no will was made. Money was shared between all siblings and in the case of a deceased brother his share was divided out between his children. I would understand if there was a will but if no will?? It all seems very strange.

I don't understand it. The dd had already dies before the will was written so surely it was clear if she was leaving it to them or not? how cand they claim it was just a "an error in the drafting"? pretty big error! Also why did her brother lose out too?

What unpleasant aunts and uncles! Didn't read the story, but I assume they had already inherited over 500k each?

Seems that way, yes. Amazing what greed does to people alright. Half a million sterling is a lot of money for people in their 60s but no, not enough, they want to deprive their sisters children who are just starting out in life.

She lost 32k - the will in total bequeathed 260k. Still a very strange story.

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Yes greed is a terrible thing. I've seen it myself (although not to this extent not far off it).
The idea that the last remaining parent was about to die suddenly had each individual son/daughter rushing to mind her but only on the condition that they got the whole estate all to him or herself.
Disgusting to listen to and see.

Greedy uncles and aunts, how dare they. I think it is wise to live with a partner before getting married. I didn't , but I was lucky in so far as my dh and I got on well when we married,. It is pure greed and I hope that the woman gets her money, . I am disgusted to think that this would even be a reason to argue the will. I do have a niece who has a bf who I would rather was not in the picture, I would love the relationship to break up, it still wouldn't stop me from giving my neice something. I am sure that grandmother felt the same, if she loved the girl, then she loved the girl.

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