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    • Banks have different limits above which they require Probate. So it may be Probate is not needed, although as he died with no Will that could complicate things. Is all the £28k with Virgin Money? Your wife should contact all banks who hold his money with the death certificate and ask them what they need to release the funds to her. Most banks have a central "bereavement department". Check their websites. Use that department rather than general call centre or bank branch if they have one. Nearly every bank website has a section on "what to do when a customer dies" so have a search for that. Your wife may also have to provide evidence that she is his daughter. When his wife died it sounds like they had a joint bank account so that's why her money just went across to him. But as it isn't a joint account now transfer to your wife won't be quite that simple.  
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    • She's an only child and he as a brother and sister. He has no will and we have done a check on this to find out if he had left one and nothing has come up. He has savings of around 28k His sister and brother are well off so 28k is nothing to them and aren't interested in his money. This just leaves my wife/his daughter. Would this still need to go to probate there is no estate e.g house or business to sell and the amount left in his bank is just small? When his wife died they just closed her bank account and moved her money across to his account and we just assumed that once my wife has handed in the death certificate and shown evidence of who she is the same would apply to her? We don't know yet the council have only just written to us today with a guide of what to do next.  
    • Did your FiL leave a Will and if so who is the Executor? Strictly speaking banks could refuse to take instructions until Probate is granted but In practice I would expect the bank to take instructions to cancel the DD if the Executor presents the death certificate and a certified copy of the Will
    • Hi   Sorry I probably wasn't clear enough. He had lived in the flat until December 2022 with Dementia by this time it was unsafe for him to have capacity to live on his own and he had to move into a nursing home. We had left it too late to apply for power of attorney so approached a solicitor in March last year for Deputyship. We were still in the process of dealing with it by May 2024. He passed away a few weeks ago and the solicitor was contacted to halt the application and we will just pay the fees of what work he has done up until now. My wife was the named person on her dads bank account but we didn't have the ability to alter any direct debits hence the reasons for applying for Deputyship as we were having problems trying to stop some payments coming out of his account Eon being another difficult company. We kept his flat on from December 2022 - August 2023. it was at this point I contacted Sancutary housing to inform them he was no longer living in the flat, it had been cleared out and was ready for a new tenant and that he had Dementia and had moved into a nursing home December 2022 and explained the reasons why we kept it on. As the named person to speak on his behalf I asked them what proof they needed in order to give notice on the flat e.g proof of dementia and proof that he was living in a nursing home and anything else they wanted. The lady in the upstairs flat and some of the other residence in the street had asked about him and we had told them he had moved into a nursing home. The lady in the upstairs flat wanted his flat for medical reasons so asked us once we had given notice could be let her know and she'll ask them if she can have it. We explained the difficulties and it was left at that but I did tell her I would let her know once notice was given. I contacted the company by email a number of times and also telephone conversations and nobody followed it up and it wasn't till the end of February this year that the housing manager for the area wrote to our home address to ask about him that he had been to the flat a couple of times and nobody answered and he had asked some of the residence in the street and they hadn't seen him for sometime. There was an email address on the letter so I contacted him and copied in the last 2 emails I sent Sanctuary regarding me wanting to give notice on the flat for at least 9 months explaining that it went ignored as well as telephone calls. I also stated I wanted to have his rent payments returned from the date I wanted to give notice which was from August 2023 as the bank wouldn't let us stop the DD without POT or deputyship explaining we were in the process of Deputyship. He gave some excuse about not having POT to cancel on his behalf and spoke to someone in HR and said he would contact the nursing home to confirm he was there with Dementia and if it all checks out we can give notice on the flat which came to an end on the 22 March 2024. There was not mention of back payments for the rent already paid or the fact I had asked to give notice in August 2023. Despite someone living in the flat from 1st April they continue to take DD payments for the flat and have taken another 2 payments of £501. another concerning thing despite Eon not allowing us to cancel the DD to his account the lady upstairs informed Eon that she was moving into the flat February 2024 and Eon refunding the account to his bank and said in an email sorry you are leaving us and canceled his account. Something they wouldn't let us do but a stranger. She also changed her bank account to his address despite the fact notice hadn't been given on the flat yet. So we need to find out how much information Sanctuary actually had for her to tell her power company she was moving into the flat in February despite the housing manager only just getting in contact to find out where he was. So a complaint is going into Eon and Sanctuary and we are going to take advice and ask the bank to charge back the rent. My wife hasn't taken the death certificate to the bank yet to inform them of his passing.  
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Don't consider the doctors - go.

 

I've recently found out a friend of mine has been struggling with DCA's. He tried to be a man about it and even his partner did not know how bad it was. I live miles away now so hadn't seen him face to face for a while so didn't know what was going on.

 

Cut a long story short, at the beginning of the summer he tried to cut his wrists. His partner just knew something was wrong and found him in the bathroom and managed to call an ambulance in time. However, he'll have permanent nerve damage.

 

He was obviously in a psychiatric ward for a while after that and had some councelling. His creditors were contacted - the barstewards didn't stop phoning, which obviously upset his partner even more and made her terrified he would do it again, especially as he was starting to do better and they were talking about releasing him. I was staying with my kids for a few weeks to give both of them some support and had the most blazing row with Legal & Trade - I think I may actually have made the woman cry. Didn't know they had it in them :shock:

 

Had I known earlier, I would have shown him this site. I didn't. What I did do while I was there was send telephone harrassment letters (including the fact that he was suffering from a mental illness, quoting OFT guidelines) and CCA'd every single one of them. I threatened to go to the media about this story if they didn't back off. Not one to date has come back.

 

His other half opens his mail now and will ask me for advice if anyone does come back. I'll be posting here if I do need help and probably PM-ing all over the place. But, for the moment, it's stopped and he has some peace.

 

He sold all sorts of things to try and get the money but this just added to his stress because whatever he offered did not seem to be enough. He also wanted it over with as quickly as possible - unfortunately, he ended up thinking of a different solution.

 

I haven't posted about this before because it was a bit raw and difficult and I wanted to respect my friends privacy (they have agreed I can post this message on here when I just phoned them). But I thought I needed to now because I don't want anyone to get into that state themselves.

 

So please - go and see your doctor. Stop worrying about what you can afford and how it will end up - it will end up resolved and fine. Keep posting on here and follow the logical steps - they work and make you in control.

 

It takes a much bigger man to admit to their doctor that they might need help than one who struggles on unneccesarily.

hopefully your freind who tried to cut there wrists is getting better,one thing springs to mind is ,since the event of a mental breakdown he is now covered from any sort of harrassment from dca and finance companies ,ALL IT WILL TAKE IS LETTERS FROM HIS DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL...THE BANKS FINANCE CO AND dca MUST NOT IN ANYWAY INTERFERE WITH HIS RIGHTS TO NOW MUCH NEEDED PRIVACY sorry cant remember all details but will find the parts of the law that should offer protection....patrickq1

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Did you see your doc Jason?

 

It sounds like this is causing you too much stress - if you haven't done - DO! If this ever ends up in court and you counterclaim, it's one way to prove the impact it's had on you.

 

Plus, after all you've been through, it's important to live your life happily. I know you want all of this to be over with quickly, but it's very possible that it won't and you should prepare yourself for that. Please remember taht tehre is nothing these people can do to you - you've found the site, you're working through the options available to you and you are now in control.

 

Just wanted to give a little support and say good luck!

YES TIG IS CORRECT DO NOT UNDER ANY CONDITIONS LET THIS STRESS YOU OUT,WHEN YOU FEEL EVEN THE LEAST BIT STRESSFUL JUST BACK OFF HAVE A LIE DOWN FOR AN HOUR,BELEIVE ME I AM SPEAKING FROM EXPERIANCE..HAVE TIME OFF FROM THIS AND BE AS PATIENT AS YOU CAN BE ,OTHERWISE YOU COULD LAND YOURSELF IN HOSPITAL,I WAS ALMOST DEAD AND BURIED WITH BREAKDOWNS HEARTATTACKS,THAT WAS FIGHTIN AGAINST BANKS AND SOLICITORS,WHERE EVERY DIRTY TRICK IN THE BOOK WAS LAID AT MY DOOR,SO TAKE TIME OUT AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE ALL THIS CAN GO AT YOUR OWN EASY GOING PACE,LET OTHERS HAVE THE STRESS

PATRICKQ1

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