Please help.
My grandmother died a couple of weeks ago.
My father is being totally blanked, for reasons he has no idea why.
His sister that lived with her up until her death, has refused to involve him at all. He was not allowed to have any say in the funeral arrangements, was not allowed to register the death.
She will not tell him whether there was a will or she died intestate.
She will not allow him round the house to pick up a few momentos.
There is a chap on the scene that nobody knew about until she passed away. A friend of his sister. who only knew my grandmother for the past few years.
He took it upon himself to arrange all the funeral, ringing my father to tell him he had sorted it all out and he registered the death. He even did a speech at the funeral...about her..and yet no-one knew who he was. my father was not given an opportunity to even speak about his mother.....this has left my father devasted. he was totally ignored throughout the ceremony.
My father is now worried that this chap has a motive for shutting him out.
As I previously said, no-one will tell him if there was a will, and if there was, when was it made. He doesnt know if there was no will.
his sister has had access to money to pay for the funeral, which was extremely lavish. She said that Grandmother had paid into a funeral insurance policy. Even so how has she managed to get access to it, without my fathers knowledge.
We know that my fathers sister was trying to get my grandmother to sign over her bank accounts to her about a month ago, but she refused too. reason being she was terribly ill and my fathers sister needed to pay the bills etc...which is understanddable.
If she changed her mind in the last few weeks, she certainly was not on occasions in sound mind as she was drugged up to the eyeballs.
We do not know where to start..or where to find out these things.
Do we ring probate and see if anything has been registered? or if anyone has applied for administration?
Please help
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