Inheritance in Maldon or anywhere else in the UK for that matter should always be declared. Too many sad examples of the reasons why have arisen in the media in recent years. By way of illustration, in 2012 a deceased woman’s daughter was accused of using money that was meant for her mother’s cats welfare for herself and did not notify the authorities of this.
That this proved to be the case is because of the fact that, whilst the estate belonging to the deceased was recognised as being worth approximately £136,000 after her home’s sale and was meant to look after her pet cats and kittens, her daughter claimed that after the deceased’s debts and beneficiaries had been paid there was only £50,000 left to look after the cats which she then did so whilst strenuously denying she used any of her mother’s money for herself.
However, matters were not helped in this instance because of the fact that, at this time, the deceased’s daughter did not notify the Department of Work and Pensions of her financial dealings or her local council because the money was never hers to begin with. The problem was that the bank account that the daughter set up to look after her mother’s cats with the money that she had left for this purpose was in her name and she was still claiming benefits whilst still stating quite categorically that had not personally benefited from her mother’s money. With this in mind, such a problem could have been resolved if the deceased had served to more precisely indicate in the terms of her Will as to how the money should have been stored and released by her daughter to maintain the care of her cats to avoid the problem of her daughter being accused of having carried out an instance of fraud.
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