A Cast-Iron Will

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For the generations who grew up hoping to bequeath and to inherit – Melita Jackson’s and Heather Ilott’s generations, roughly – this is a sharp disappointment. Besides, Melita was now unhappy that her fifth grandchild had been named after Nicholas’s mother, who she didn’t like either. In 1999, the women tried again after another awkward encounter, this time between Melita and Nicholas at the dentist’s.

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People are already having to take great care over excluding people from their wills, and soon others might begin to act as if they know they can’t be disinherited. In other parts of the country, particularly in the north, poverty, high rental markets and far less house ownership [mean that] when people become elderly they simply can’t pay for their long-term care, so those local authorities – which are already struggling because it’s a poor area – are going to get far less contributions to their care bill. After a successful stage career that took her all over the world, she met Fred Dibnah in 1996 and married him two years later. My private-client colleagues were absolutely outraged at the first Ilott decision,” says Amanda Smallcombe, a partner who specialises in Inheritance Act cases at the law firm Birkett Long.For instance, in most of Europe and much of the rest of the world, a principle of “forced heirship” compels a portion of every estate, often half, to be distributed equally among the deceased’s close relatives.

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But due to an ongoing dispute with Mr Dibnah’s widow, Sheila, whom he married in 1998, the will — which was read in 2007 — has still not been settled. If Harper is right, it is going to be normal in the 21st century to feel that the generations owe each other very little once they are adults – the opposite of what the courts have ruled. She gave her detailed memoirs she had kept during her marriage to Fred, with a view to putting together a book.The other side won’t be certain either, after all, and this “gives us lawyers a grey area that we can play in”, which means striking deals. Unfortunately for the offspring, this also means watching what they’d started to think of as their inheritance being slowly spent.